Following years of intensive and thorough research into what military members die from on the battlefield, identifying what is treatable pre-hospital, and determining what skills and equipment are needed to provide that care, in 1996 the 42 member joint service Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care put forth the guidelines on Tactical Combat Casualty Care. These trauma care guidelines and accompanying training are credited with saving countless lives in combat. Looking to carry these recommendations home from the battlefield and translate into the civilian high-threat pre-hospital environment, in 2010 the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care established their own similar set of guidelines. For both Committees the goal was the same, to reduce or eliminate death from potentially survivable wounds.
Although originally created to deal with potentially fatal injuries received on the military battlefield, TECC is equally applicable to care for traumatic injuries sustained in the civilian environment. Intentional violence, a fall through glass, industrial machinery, motor vehicle accident, construction site mishap, negligent discharge on a shooting range, even a broken wine glass can produce injuries best addressed by TECC. You’ll learn skills such as when and how to apply a tourniquet, seal a sucking chest wound, open an occluded airway and much more.