The PTC course is a trauma management course that helps you organize much of what you already know about trauma. It aims on teaching you a framework that will help you not to forget something important when faced with a severely injured patient. PTC focuses on using the resources you have available – mostly your own knowledge and skills, your eyes, ears, hands and (most of all) your brain – to diagnose, assess and treat life-threatening complications of trauma.

The PTC system, like other trauma systems, consists of a primary survey/treat as you find phase,followed by systematic secondary survey, leading to definitive care.