International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) Course

About the ITLS Course

Our ITLS course in Johannesburg and around the country provides structured, practical trauma training for healthcare professionals involved in the assessment and management of injured patients.

The International Trauma Life Support Advanced course develops a systematic approach to trauma care, from scene assessment and airway management through to shock, thoracic trauma, head injury, spinal trauma, burns, paediatric trauma and traumatic cardiac arrest. Practical skills stations and patient scenarios are used throughout the programme to reinforce decision-making and hands-on trauma management.

Who Should Attend?

The ITLS Advanced course is suitable for:

• Medical practitioners and interns
• Dental practitioners
• Professional nurses
• Advanced Life Support paramedics
• Intermediate Life Support providers with an HPCSA-recognised qualification

What Will I Learn?

• Scene size-up
• Assessment and initial management of the trauma patient
• Basic and advanced airway management
• Shock recognition and management
• Chest and abdominal trauma
• Head and spinal trauma
• Extremity trauma
• Burns
• Trauma in pregnancy
• Paediatric trauma
• Trauma in older patients
• Trauma and cardiac arrest
• Patients affected by alcohol or drugs

Practical Skills

• Basic and advanced airway management
• Vehicle extrication and use of extrication devices
• Spinal motion restriction and splinting
• Thoracocentesis
• Intraosseous access
• Trauma patient assessment
• Scenario-based trauma management

ITLS Courses in Johannesburg

EPIC EM delivers ITLS Advanced training from the EPICENTRE at Rand Airport, Germiston, Johannesburg, with selected courses available in other locations.

ITLS Courses South Africa

EPIC EM is able to offer this course across the country and into the SADC countries. Contact us to book your course!

ITLS Certification and CPD

Successful candidates receive an International Trauma Life Support certificate in completion of the course. The ITLS course is accredited with 23 Continuing Education units including 1 ethics point