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Tactical Combat Casualty Care Training for Police Officers
Last week, I attended my department’s annual forty-hour In-Service training block. The final day had instruction to which I had not been exposed in many years of police work: an introduction to Tactical Combat Casualty Care. What has always been in the trunk of the cop car? A first aid kit. What was it useful for? Not much really. Antiseptic, band-aids, and some Ibuprofen are far from helpful in a real live trauma emergency when rounds may be flying. The concept of TCCC (Tee-Triple-Cee) began with a 1996 paper that was published in Military Medicine. U.S. Special Operations Command ran with the ideas and methods and slowly began implementing TCCC … Continue reading