NAEMT's Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) course is the first EMS education program that fully addresses how to best assess and manage the most common medical crises in patients, offering a "think outside the box" training methodology. It is for all levels of practitioners with a strong commitment to patient care, including emergency medical technicians, paramedics, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists and physicians. The course emphasizes the use of scene size-up, history, interactive group discussion on potential treatment strategies, and physical exam to systematically rule out and consider possibilities and probabilities in treating patients' medical crises. The course offers an initial assessment-based approach that progresses to a diagnostic-based approach to quickly develop the best treatment plan. AMLS is a sixteen-hour, two-day program that consists of interactive lectures, teaching and evaluation stations. Teaching stations follow the associated lectures each day.
The interactive/case based lectures include the following topics:
- Altered Mental Status & Neurologic Disorders
- Respiratory Dysfunction
- Airway Management
- Signs & Symptoms of Impending Failure
- Assessment & Treatment of COPD
- Assessment & Treatment of Obstruction
- Management of Shock
- Chest Discomfort
- Endocrine Emergencies
- Metabolic & Environmental Disorders
- Abdominal Discomfort
- Infectious Disease
- Toxicologic Emergencies
- Hazardous Materials & Weapons of Mass Destruction
The book is required for this class.
School Notes: All of the courses that we have students sign up for through CourseHorse are skills sessions. Skills sessions require that the student complete an online testing portion through the American Heart Association, that online testing portion is a separate charge from our class fee for facilitating the skills session in the class room.
We offer full provider classes that are all done in class without the need to complete an online test before the class starts.