TACTICAL COMBAT CASUALTY CARE (TCCC)
TACTICAL COMBAT CASUALTY CARE (TCCC) was developed by the US Department of Defense Health Agency - Joint Trauma System as a practical and efficient way of treating traumatic injuries in a hostile environment. TCCC is the standard medical training given to US servicemembers and most law enforcement departments today. TCCC is invaluable to an organization as it provides employees with tool, tactics, and techniques that can greatly enhance employee response and survivability during an emergency situation.
This is not a standard first-aid or CPR class. The main focus of TCCC is “stopping the bleed” and clearing airways. Bleeding injuries are the main cause of death during active shooter incidents or mass casualty events. A person can bleed to death in five minutes, and depending on the severity or location of the injury, it can happen even quicker. Suffocation due to pneumothorax injuries can happen in under three minutes. Because of this, you cannot rely on or wait for emergency medical services to save a person with these injuries. Medical responders in most places will not enter a “hot” zone and will wait until it is cleared by law enforcement. This could take ten minutes, or it can take two hours. Your people need the ability to save their own and their coworkers’ lives while waiting for follow-on response.
It is also important to know when and what type of injuries to treat during an active shooter incident or other emergencies. Splinting bones while under fire is not a viable option. However, applying a tourniquet to stop someone from bleeding out in that five-minute window is imperative. Having trauma kits available and the training on how and when to use them will save lives.
TCCC teaches how to use medical lifesaving devices like tourniquets, chest seals, nasal pharyngeal airways, pressure bandages, tension pneumothorax darts, hemostatic gauze, and others. These are items in which their misuse could cause serious injury or death; simply purchasing them and having them around is not enough. Your people must be trained on them to use them effectively. We also teach how to assess injuries, improvise equipment, clear airways, treat symptoms of shock, how to move the injured, where to move them to, and how to get them secondary, professional treatment.
TCCC is offered as a standalone training event lasting six hours or can be incorporated into larger training events like ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENT RESPONSE.
PACKAGES AND OPTIONS
TCCC TIER 1: Eight-hour course that includes all classroom instruction, familiarization of medical equipment, demonstration of techniques learned, and several training scenarios simulating mass-casualty events.
TCCC TIER 2: Seven-hour course that includes all classroom instruction, familiarization of medical equipment, demonstration of techniques learned, and a training scenario simulating casualties.
TCCC TIER 3: Standard six-hour course that entails classroom instruction, familiarization of medical equipment, and demonstration of abilities learned by students.