Practise Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT), in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma · PHTLS 10th Edition provider-course assessment, supported by NAEMT's 2025–2026 Education Catalog, page 6, and current official course information as of 2026-10-15. The assigned label 'Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support' maps to NAEMT's official 'Prehospital Trauma Life Support' provider program and its course assessment; it does not identify a separate standalone examination. No exact outline effective date or examination domain percentages are stated.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- NAEMT: Prehospital Trauma Life Support
- NAEMT: PHTLS Courses
- NAEMT 2025–2026 Education Catalog
- NAEMT Training Center Guide
- Guide for Developing an EMS Agency Safety Program
- OpenStax: Introduction to Cardiac Emergencies and Shock
- OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e: Transport of Gases
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: Trauma—Secondary Survey
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: Circulation Management
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: How Are Children Different?
- NAEMSP 2025 EMS Subspecialty Certification Review Course: Procedures and Airway
- 2024 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid
- ACS 2024 Best Practices Guidelines: The Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
- ACS TQIP Best Practices in the Management of Orthopaedic Trauma
- ACS Best Practices Guidelines for Acute Pain Management in Trauma Patients
- ACS November 2025 Best Practices Guidelines: Management of Chest Wall Injuries
- ACS National Guideline for the Field Triage of Injured Patients: Algorithm
- ACS TQIP Massive Transfusion in Trauma Guidelines
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: Chest Injury
- ANZCOR Guideline 12.2: Paediatric Advanced Life Support
- Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation: Monitoring for Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
- NAEMT: Education Resources
Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
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An injured patient has a reliable oxygen saturation of 98%, but substantial blood loss and poor peripheral perfusion. Why can tissue oxygen delivery still be inadequate?
Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
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Physiology of life and death
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