ITLS Course in Kottayam, Kerala

ITLS Provider includes 8 hours of classroom instruction, 8 hours of hands-on skills training, and testing for ITLS Basic or Advanced certification. Innovative skills stations let you practice the abilities appropriate for your level of certification.

The ITLS Course is hands-on and intensive. The primary purpose of the ITLS course is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and experience necessary to get the trauma patient from scene to surgery in the best possible condition. The ITLS course focuses on the skills necessary to recognize mechanisms of injury; perform an organized, time-efficient assessment; prioritize and perform critical interventions, and appropriately package and transport the trauma patient.

A major focus of the course is the identification of conditions that require immediate transport (“load and go”) in order to save the patient. Lifesaving techniques are taught or reviewed in practical exercises.

Course Content

Scene Size-up
Trauma Assessment and Management
Airway Management
Thoracic Trauma
Shock
Head Trauma
Spinal Trauma
Abdominal Trauma

Extremity Trauma
Burns
Paediatric Trauma
Geriatric Trauma
Trauma in Pregnancy
The Impaired Patient
Trauma Arrest
Standard Precautions

Skill Stations

Assessment skills Airway skills
Thoracic trauma skills
Vascular access skills
Spine management skills
Extremity trauma skills

Who Can Do the Course?

Doctors-MBBS with any specialisation
Nurses- GNM/BSC/Post Bsc/MSC
Paramedics

The course is designed for the prehospital phase of EMS, it is also useful to Medical Students, Emergency Medicine Residents, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants interested in Trauma Care.