Tactical Combat Casualty Care Summary: Casualty scenarios on the battlefield • Good tactical medicine HAS to be a combination of good tactics usually entail both medical and tactical and good medicine. problems. Bring your leadership into the medical plan. Emergency actions must address both. • Combat leaders must understand combat medicine. Medical personnel should be involved in • mission planning. Scenario-Based Planning The TCCC guidelines for combat trauma • scenarios are advisory rather than directive in nature. Rarely does an actual tactical situation Read text • exactly reflect the conditions described in planning scenarios. Unit medics/corpsmen/PJs will typically • need to modify the medical care plan to optimize it for the real scenario. The 3 Objectives of TCCC the casualty • Once more….. Prevent additional casualties • Complete the mission • The End
Tactical Combat Casualty Care • Casualty scenarios on the battlefield usually entail both medical and tactical problems. • Emergency actions must address both. • Medical personnel should be involved in mission planning. Summary: Good tactical medicine HAS to be a combination of good tactics and good medicine. Bring your leadership into the medical plan. Combat leaders must understand combat medicine. Scenario-Based Planning • The TCCC guidelines for combat trauma scenarios are advisory rather than directive in nature. • Rarely does an actual tactical situation exactly reflect the conditions described in planning scenarios. • Unit medics/corpsmen/PJs will typically need to modify the medical care plan to optimize it for the real scenario. Read text The 3 Objectives of TCCC • the casualty • Prevent additional casualties • Complete the mission Once more….. The End