Prehospital Trauma Life Support for First Responders (PHTLS-FR), from the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT), trains emergency medical responders, firefighters, rescue personnel, and law enforcement officers to provide effective trauma treatment before EMS professionals arrive on the scene.

Topics covered include:

• Shorter, didactic lessons to increase time spent on skills
  and patient simulations

• Lessons, skills, and patient simulations that follow the
  XABCDE method for primary survey

• New lesson on Exsanguinating Hemorrhage

• New lesson on Expose/Environment

• New case studies to engage first responders