International Trauma Life Support: Duty To Respond

Using case-based scenarios in a simulated skills station format, students learn important skills in managing trauma as first responders. The course focuses on initial patient evaluation and critical interventions required to care for a patient until next level care arrives. Students learn about scene size-up, rapid trauma patient assessment, shock and bleeding, airway and breathing interventions, delayed transport care, an approach to patient reassessment, mass casualty triage and communications, all necessary skills as first responders.