Tactical combat casualty care in special operations.

Ranger first responder and the evolution of tactical combat casualty care.

Surgeons of the United States, Military Medicine, published a supplement titled “Tactical Combat Casualty Care in Special Operations.” This supplement, written by U.S. Navy CAPT Frank K. Butler Jr., Army LTC John Haymann and Navy ENS E. George Butler, altered the course of pre-hospital combat medicine into what we know today as tactical medicine. The authors brought to the forefront the vast di...

Prehospital advances in the management of severe penetrating trauma.

BACKGROUND Historic advances in combat prehospital care have been made in the last decade. Unlike other areas of critical care, most of these innovations are not the result of significant improvements in technology, but by conceptual changes in how care is delivered in a tactical setting. The new concept of Tactical Combat Casualty Care has revolutionized the management of combat casualties in ...

Tactical combat casualty care 2007: evolving concepts and battlefield experience.

The Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) project begun by the Naval Special Warfare Command and continued by the U.S. Special Operations Command developed a set of tactically appropriate battlefield trauma care guidelines that were initially published in 1996. Transition of these guidelines into use throughout the Department of Defense has been ongoing since that time. The need for updates to t...

The Tactical Combat Casualty Care Casualty Card TCCC Guidelines ? Proposed Change 1301.

Optimizing trauma care delivery is paramount to saving lives on the battlefield. During the past decade of conflict, trauma care performance improvement at combat support hospitals and forward surgical teams in Afghanistan and Iraq has increased through Joint Trauma System and DoD Trauma Registry data collection, analysis, and rapid evidence-based adjustments to clinical practice guidelines. Al...

Emergency Cricothyroidotomy in Tactical Combat Casualty Care.

Eliminating preventable death on the battlefield

To evaluate battlefield survival in a novel command-directed casualty response system that comprehensively integrates Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines and a prehospital trauma registry. Analysis of battle injury data collected during combat deployments. Afghanistan and Iraq from October 1, 2001, through March 31, 2010. Casualties from the 75th Ranger Regiment, US Army Special Operations...