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New York ACEP ITLS State Medical Director
Jeremy T. Cushman, MD MS EMT-P FACEP
New York ACEP ITLS State Program Coordinator
Timothy A. Pistor, email: tpistor@nyacep.org
Improving Trauma Care Worldwide
International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) is a global 501c3 non-profit organization with headquarters in Illinois, USA. Today, ITLS has more than 130 Chapters and Training Centres in over 50 countries around the world that offer training, education, and research opportunities for emergency care providers.
ITLS empowers emergency care providers with the knowledge and skill to provide optimal care in the prehospital setting. ITLS has a variety of education and training opportunities for all levels and backgrounds for all emergency care providers around the world.
Focused Training and Education for Better Patient Care
ITLS courses equip students with the knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to provide optimal care for trauma patients. The training emphasizes rapid assessment, appropriate interventions, and the identification of life-threatening conditions. The ITLS framework for quick, effective trauma care has become a global standard, applicable in any emergency situation.
Courses combine classroom instruction with hands-on skills stations and practical assessment scenarios, allowing students to apply what they’ve learned in simulated trauma settings. Each course is accompanied by an evidence-based manual, meticulously crafted by trauma care experts, and continually updated based on the latest research.
ITLS courses are designed, managed, and delivered by experienced instructors with backgrounds in EMS, pre-hospital care, and the ITLS methodology.
ITLS Basic and Advanced
These comprehensive courses are designed for providers who are first to evaluate and stabilize the trauma patient. The courses provide complete training in the skills needed for rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization and transportation of trauma patients.
The ITLS Basic course provides the core of knowledge and skills appropriate for all levels of EMS personnel, including EMT-Bs, first responders and other technicians.
The ITLS Advanced course builds on this knowledge, emphasizing evaluation steps and sequencing as well as techniques for resuscitating and packaging patients. ITLS Advanced is appropriate for advanced EMTs, paramedics, trauma nurses, physicians and other advanced EMS personnel. Hands-on stations include:
- Patient assessment and management
- Basic and advanced airway management
- Needle chest decompression and fluid resuscitation
- Spinal motion restriction — rapid extrication, short back board, helmet management, log roll, and long back board/ scoop stretcher utilization
- Extremity immobilization and traction splint application
- ITLS Basic and Advanced courses use the 9th edition ITLS for Emergency Care Providers manual
Course Submission Requirements
In order to assist New York ACEP ITLS course coordinators in meeting the requirements needed to print course cards/certificates, see the checklist below for your reference. We will be unable to assist any agency that does not submit the following materials as dictated by the timeline.
In addition to student needs, these timelines are important to allow affiliate faculty to attend and audit courses throughout the State. Course auditing helps us to address concerns of coordinators, instructors and students to improve future course offerings.
Pre-Course Submissions (to be received no less than 30 days prior to course)
The course coordinator must submit notification of planned courses at least 30 days prior to the proposed course. Guidance throughout the planning process can be obtained by contacting the New York ACEP ITLS office by phone at (585) 872-2417 or email at nyacep@nyacep.org
- Course Schedule(s)
Post-Course Submissions
Upon completion of the course, Course Coordinators must submit the following materials within 30 days:
- Faculty/Student Roster/Grades (CMS)
- Course Registrant Evaluations (copy)
- Course Agenda/Outline
- Sign-in Sheets
- Student registration fees: $34 per student/$35 per student if paying by credit card (ITLS Card/Certificate Online Payment)
Once all documentation is received and approved by New York ACEP ITLS, approval will be given for course coordinators to print cards and certificates from the ITLS Course Management System.
Instructor Reciprocity
Reciprocity is granted to ITLS instructors from other states. An instructor coming into New York must provide notification to the New York ACEP ITLS Program Coordinator and supply current instructor documentation. This documentation will include the instructor’s past ITLS instruction activities and a letter confirming the activity from their former area Medical Director.
Once approved by the New York ACEP ITLS Medical Director, the instructor candidate will be briefed and monitored by a New York ACEP ITLS faculty member.
eTrauma - Taking trauma training online
The 9th Edition ITLS eTrauma: Taking Trauma Training Online course reinterprets the ITLS Provider classroom instruction in a self-paced, online format that focuses on the essential knowledge to take better care of trauma patients. ITLS stresses rapid assessment, appropriate intervention and identification of immediate life threats. The ITLS framework for rapid, appropriate and effective trauma care is a global standard that works in any situation. The ITLS eTrauma course can be used for continuing education or as the first step in achieving your ITLS Basic or Advanced Provider certification.
Recertification
ITLS Recertification courses keep experienced ITLS providers and instructors up to date with the ITLS curriculum and skills.
Establishing an ITLS Education Site
New York ACEP is excited about the prospect of being able to make ITLS available in other areas. To establish your agency as a ITLS education site, you will need to submit a letter of intent by e-mail on the following materials:
- Agency offering ITLS
- Course location
- Name and contact information for your course medical director
- Medical director’s Curriculum Vitae
- Letter from director acknowledging acceptance of the responsibilities associated with serving as medical director as well as an understanding of the ITLS curriculum and a willingness to participate in courses (template available upon request)
- Documentation of course faculty certification as ITLS instructors
- Estimated number of providers/instructors you foresee training per year
- Statement of acceptance of the responsibilities associated with serving as coordinator along with compliance of all New York ITLS policies.
Training Center Coordinators
Contact the training center coordinator directly for course schedule information or view the ITLS Course Calendar
Jessica Goudy, EMT-P
ACTION CPR LLC
5283 Irish Rd
Lockport, NY 14094
Phone: (716) 545-7820
E-mail: actioncprllc@yahoo.com
Sara Gruver
Arnot Health
600 Roe Ave
Elmira, NY 14905
Phone:
E-mail: sarah.gruver@arnothealth.org
Joshua Schauman, EMT-P
Chautauqua County Office of Emergency Services
2 Academy St
Mayville, NY 14757
Phone: 716-753-4025
E-mail: schauman@chautcofire.org
Scott Corcoran, MS CIC Paramedic
Erie Community College
4041 Southwestern Blvd
Orchard Park, NY 14127
Phone: (716) 851-1797
E-mail: corcoran@ecc.edu
Department of Emergency Medicine
Erie County Medical Center
462 Grider St
Buffalo, NY 14215
Phone: (716) 898-3600/ Fax: (716) 898-5988
E-mail: swander@ecmc.edu
Heidi Stobie, NREMT-P
Finger Lakes Regional EMS
63 Pulteney St
Geneva, NY 14456
Phone: (315) 789-0108
E-mail: hjstobie@gmail.com
Reg Allen, BS NREMT-P
CHS Mobile Integrated Health Care, Inc.
280 Calkins Rd
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone: (585) 334-4190
E-mail: rallen@chsmobilehealth.org
Rebecca Marsh
Mercy Flight, Inc.
100 Amherst Villa Rd
Buffalo, NY 14225
Phone: (716) 626-4100
E-mail: rmarsh@mercyflight.org
Bob Breese, F-PC TP-C CIC
Monroe Community College
48 Winding Brook Dr
Fairport, NY 14450
Phone: (585) 330-0050 / Fax: (585) 422-9581
E-mail: rbreese1@rochester.rr.com
Michele Forness, EMT-P RN
Olean EMS
118 S 19th St
Olean, NY 14760
Phone: (716) 373-2612 / Fax: (716) 375-6376
E-mail: mickeyforness@gmail.com
Tom Barsi, EMT-P
Education Manager
Orchard Park Fire District EMS
4222 S Taylor Rd
Orchard Park, NY 14127
Phone: (716) 662-2619/ Fax: (716) 662-1753
E-mail: tbarsi@opfdems.org
Christina Mastrella, CIC
American Medical Response-Buffalo
481 William L Gaiter Pkwy
Buffalo, NY 14215
Phone: (716) 201-6091
E-mail: hazmatranger71@yahoo.com
Brian Wilcox
ALSTAR EMS Training Center
335 East Third St
Jamestown, NY 14701
Phone: (716) 664-7353 x302
E-mail: wilcoxb@upmc.edu
Jon Fredrickson, EMT-P
Superior Training Solutions
102 Niagara St
Lockport, NY 14094
Phone: (716) 514-0469
E-mail: superiortraining@aol.com
Sean P. Hulsman, MEd EMT-P
Twin City Ambulance
555 Commerce Dr
Amherst, NY 14228
Phone: (716) 692-2342 Ext 136
E-mail: shulsman@tcaems.com