AHLS: Advanced Hazmat Life Support
AHLS Hazmat Provider Course For All Healthcare ProfessionalsThe international leading course in this field.
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AHLS – Advanced Hazmat Life Support
The Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS) Provider Course offers comprehensive training in the medical management of patients exposed to hazardous materials. The focus is on systematic response for the medical management on chemical incidents (incl. nerve gases). Incidents with exposure to biological and radiological events are also covered.
The 16 hour, two-day AHLS Provider Course is the most comprehensive medical training program, teaching critical know-how needed to evaluate and treat victims exposed to chemical spills, toxic terrorism, and other threats.
Learning objectives:
- Principle approach to HAZMAT-events
- Self- and partner protection
- Toxidromes
- Poisoning treatment paradigm, including specific antidotes
Target audience:
- Emergency Physicians, Prehospital Emergency Physicians, Paramedics
- Nurses of the Emergency Departments
- Toxicologists
- NBC-specialists of the firefighters and the army
- Military physicians and Personnel of the civil Protection of the Population
Training for interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to care for patients exposed to hazardous materials and dangerous goods. Join the worldwide community of more than 16,500 healthcare professionals from 64 countries and become a verified AHLS Provider, prepared to face the medical challenges of hazmat incidents.
Credits:
SFG/CSAM: Kat. I = 2; Kat. III = 28; SSCPT: 16; SGARM: 14; SGNOR: 16; SGAR: 16; SGC: 6; SGI: 16
The AHLS certificate is internationally approved. Course participants will be registered with the international AHLS-Provider-database.
The AHLS certificate is internationally recognized.
Additional Information
Campus KSD
In cooperation with:
The AHLS course is part of the curriculum DAS W+H-2
The AHLS course is part of the curriculum CAS Médicaments et dispositifs médicaux en situation d’urgence et de catastrophe, offered by the University of Geneva
Courses 2022
AHLS–Provider: Advanced Hazardous Life Support Training
Date: June 9./10., 2022
Venue: TBA
When registering for the course, please also select whether you will be participating in the English or German course, which will be held at the same time. The course manual, presentations and workshop are in English; support in French or German is possible.
Course director:
Dr. med. Mathias Zürcher
Course faculty:
Frank G. Walter, MD, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Editor, Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS), Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center, College of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy Practice & Science, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona.
Dr. med. Hugo Kupferschmidt, director and Chefarzt, Tox Info Suisse.
PD Dr. med. Anne Leuppi-Taegtmeyer, Oberärztin, Klinische Pharmakologie u.Toxikologie, Universitätsspital Basel.
Sven Hoffmann, Studiengangsleiter, Universität Zürich, DAS Work Health.
AHLS Switzerland is organized by the Swiss Center for Rescue, Emergency- and Disaster Medicine (SCRED, www.szrnk.ch) in context with the National Center for Disaster Medicine SFG and in collaboration with Tox Info Suisse, Zürich; the Spiez Laboratory, Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection (BABS), and the Coordinated Medical Services (KSD).
AHLS course manual and course preparation
The provider manual will be sent to participants 4-5 weeks prior to the course.
Course fee:
Included are: Course manual and material, international registration and AHLS certificate.
Accommodation:
The Federal Training Centre
Kilchermatt 2, in 3150 Schwarzenburg, offers accommodation.
Please place your interest for accommodation with the SCRED administration:
Link to the web-form
Course registration
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