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