PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Military Edition: .
by National Association Of Emergency Medical Technicians (Naemt)
A comprehensive and heavily illustrated reference for prehospital trauma care. This eighth edition covers foundational and advanced skills, military medicine, disaster management, weapons-of-mass-destruction response, and patient-centered clinical reasoning, with focused instruction on airway, thoracic, and spinal trauma management.
About This Book
Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Military Edition is the required textbook for NAEMT’s worldwide prehospital trauma life support course.
This eighth edition presents comprehensive, evidence-based guidance for basic and advanced prehospital trauma care, with updated treatment principles and protocols.
Expanded military medicine coverage includes the Joint Theater Trauma System, burn casualty treatment in Tactical Combat Casualty Care, and TCCC casualty response planning.
The book also addresses disaster management, explosives and other weapons of mass destruction, and critical thinking for adapting trauma care to individual situations.
Illustrated step-by-step instruction covers essential airway, thoracic, and spinal skills, with organization reflecting current research and the American College of Surgeons’ ATLS course.
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