TECC – Tactical Emergency Casualty Care

Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) is a 2-day, 16-hour course which teaches EMS practitioners and other prehospital providers how to respond to and care for patients in a civilian tactical environment.  It is designed to decrease preventable deaths in a tactical situation.  The course presents the three phases of tactical care:

• Direct Threat Care that is rendered while under attack. or in adverse conditions.
• Indirect Threat Care that is rendered while the threat has been suppressed, but may resurface at any point.
• Evacuation Care that is rendered while the casualty is being evacuated from the incident site.

The following topics are covered during the course:

• Hemorrhage control, including wound packing and junctional tourniquets;
• Surgical airway control, supraglottic airways, and needle decompression;
• Strategies for treating wounded responders in threatening environments;
• Caring for pediatric patients;
• Rescue techniques, including drags and carries to get victims to safety.

There are many hands-on practical applications and scenarios, so participants will need to dress appropriately.  There will also be use of simulated blood and wounds.

For non-MLSS employees, please submit your payment in the amount of $250.00.  Textbooks are available for loan for MLSS employees and available for purchase at jblearning.com or wherever books are sold.  The Prehospital Trauma Life Support (Military Edition), 8^th edition, is available for approximately $86.00 at retailers.

Space is limited.

This course is held Saturday, September 29^th, and Sunday, September 30^th, 2018 from 09:00-17:00.  Attendance of both days is mandatory for course completion.