Apr 2025 Offering

Course

AHLS - Advanced Hazmat Life Support Course

Date & Times

Apr 29 - 30, 2025 from 8 AM - 4 PM

Description

Participants learn to medically manage patients exposed to hazardous materials by recognizing the signs and symptoms. Healthcare professionals receive a four-year verification status upon successful completion of the course.

This course covers hazardous materials including insecticides, corrosives, irritant gases, asphyxiants, hydrocarbons and substituted hydrocarbons, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents. Specific antidotes and their indications, contraindications, dosing, and route are also included.

After completing AHLS Provider, participants will be able to:

Rapidly assess hazmat patients

Recognize toxic syndromes (toxidromes)

Discuss the medical management of hazmat patients

Apply the Poisoning Treatment Paradigm™

Identify and recognize the appropriate administration of specific antidotes

Hours

16

Region

4

Locations

Opelousas Civic Center

1638 Creswell Lane Ext
Opelousas, LA 70570

POST Approved

No

Target Audiences

Emergency Medical Services (EMS), HAZMAT, Medical (Hospital), and Public Health

Availability

Open To The Public

Prerequisites

None Set

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