AnthonyM83 Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 Has anyone taken an Advanced Medical Life Support class or read the text (found it on Amazon...sponsored by NAEMT)? What exactly does it teach? Helpful? How helpful? Worth the money? Applicable to the field?
ccmedoc Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 Its alright..I think it would strengthen your assessment skills..maybe change your mindset a bit...
brentoli Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 Can anyone answer the 2nd part of his question? I am curious what it is, never heard of it.
VentMedic Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 For those of you in the San Francisco Bay area, the SF Paramedic Association offers some decent classes. This is their link with a description and a sample AMLS pretest. http://www.sfpaonline.org/detail.lasso?classid=59e20on0iipz http://www.sfparamedics.org/pages/pdfs/cou...AMLSPretest.pdf Sidenote: They also offer a good airway class occasionally.
EMS2712 Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 I don't know if you found the answer you were looking for about the AMLS Course. The course is sanctioned by the National Association of EMT's. With the EMS alphabet courses, you have ACLS that covers Cardiac and Some Stroke issues. Then you have either ITLS/PHTLS which deals with the trauma. AMLS looks at all of the other medical issues in between. It focuses more on assessment, and making a differential diagnosis for what is going on with the patient. I have taught a couple of the AMLS courses and loved it. I think it is a good refresher course for the seasoned medics, but an excellent course for just starting out..
scott33 Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Another recent (but brief) thread on it here. Haven't really heard anything too negative about it, and it's definitely a course I would recommend
MSDeltaFlt Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 As an AMLS instructor, let me give you the basic "gist" of the class. AMLS will teach you to assess, come up with field Dx with differentials, and properly treat your pt without lab values, SpO2, EtCO2, Accu chk, ECG, or CT's... all in 10 min or less. They will show you some hands on assessment tests that physicians are taught. It is an excellent course. I love it.
AMESEMT Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 In my medic class we just got done with AMLS last week. Like MSDelta said, it just teaches you assessment skills that help you come up with field dx and a list of differentials utilizing vitals, chief complain, and other tools a paramedic has. I actually found it very informative and would recommend it. For me it was a 2 day course with both lecture and lab time. The labs are scenarios designed to make you think and go through the assessment process from initial scene size-up to when you make your field dx. If you have any questions just give me a pm and I can try and answer them. Ames
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