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Tactical Combat Casualty Care

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For other uses, see TC3.
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Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC or TC3) is — a standard of care in Prehospital Battlefield Medicine. It was designed in the mid-'90s for the Special Operations medical community. Now it is a DOD course, conducted by NAEMT.[1] TCCC or similar standards are used by most allied countries.[2]

Tactical combat casualty care training at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Feb. 23, 2016.

Phases of Care

In TCCC prehospital battlefield care is divided into 3 phases:

  • Care Under Fire
  • Tactical Field Care
  • Tactical Evacuation Care
MEDEVAC at Tactical combat casualty care training, Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Feb. 23, 2016.

MARCH

TCCC uses MARCH acronym:

References

  1. ^ NAEMT cite
  2. ^ a b Tactical combat casualty care in the Canadian Forces: lessons learned from the Afghan war.


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