TCCC TIER3 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Which factors influence TCCC?
Correct Answer: Hostile fire, tactical considerations, wounding patterns,
environmental considerations, level of first-responder training and experience,
equipment constraints and the potential for significant delays in evacuation.
Question 2.
What are the phases of care in TCCC?
Correct Answer: Care Under Fire/Threat, Tactical Field Care, and Tactical
Evacuation Care.
Question 3.
What is the most essential treatment task in CUF?
Correct Answer: Application of a limb tourniquet to control massive bleeding.
Question 4.
What is every first responder's role in CUF?
Correct Answer: Suppress hostile fire and/or establish scene safety, assist in
self-aid, and assist in moving casualties
Question 5.
What does MARCH PAWS stand for?
Correct Answer: Massive bleeding, airway, respirations (breathing), circulation,
and hypothermia AND head injury, pain, antibiotics, wounds, and splints.
Question 6.
What type of tourniquet found in the CMC Aid Bag is used to control massive hemorrhage
in the axilla that is too proximal for effective limb tourniquet application?
Correct Answer: Junctional Tourniquet
Question 7.
When should you inspect your JFAK, CLS bag, CMC bag and other Service-specif-ic medical
kits?
Correct Answer: Before, during, and after all training events and missions.
,Question 8.
What is Care Un-der Fire?
Correct Answer: care given by the first responder at the scene of the injury
while they and the casualty are still under effective hostile fire or near the
threat.
Question 9.
What are the signs of life threatening bleeding?
Correct Answer: • Bright red blood is pooling on the ground • The overlying
clothes are soaked with blood • There is a traumatic AMPUTATION of an arm or
leg • There is pulsatile (pulsing) or steady bleeding from the wound
Question 10.
How long does it take to bleed to death from a complete femoral artery and vein
disruption?
Correct Answer: 3 minutes or less
Question 11.
What are advantages and disadvantages of one-person drags?
Correct Answer: • Advantages: only one rescuer is exposed to enemy fire. •
Disadvantages: they are difficult to perform and can cause the rescuer to tire
quickly.
Question 12.
What are advantages and disadvantages of two-person carries?
Correct Answer: • Advantages: they are useful in situations where drags do not
work well and are quicker than most one-person carries. • Disadvantages: they
cause the rescuers to have a higher silhouette than most drags, and are hard to
accomplish with the added weight of rescuer's and/or the casualty's equipment.
Question 13.
What is the difference between TFC and CUF?
Correct Answer: care rendered once the combat medic/corpsman and casualty
are no longer un-der direct threat from effective enemy fire. This allows for the
time and the relative safety for a more deliberate approach to casualty
assessment and treatment.
, Question 14.
True or False: During TFC, the tactical situation could change back to CUF again at any
time?
Correct Answer: True
Question 15.
What is triage?
Correct Answer: the deliberate sorting of casualties and allocation of limited
treatment resources according to a system of priorities designed to maximize
the number of survivors on the battlefield.
Question 16.
What is a CCP?
Correct Answer: location on the battlefield for the triage, treatment and
monitoring, and the packaging/staging of casualties for evacuation. The CCP
should be established reasonably close to the fight where casualties are likely
to occur, be near natural "lines of drift", provide relative cover and concealment
from the enemy whenever possible, and have access to evacuation routes.
Question 17.
In which phase of care is most of the Tactical Trauma Assessment performed?
Correct Answer: Tactical Field Care
Question 18.
Why is it important to assess the casualty's mental status?
Correct Answer: They may need to be disarmed and to have communications
equipment removed. Following their mental status throughout the assessment
may help responders identify changes in clinical status, leading to early casualty
reassessment.
Question 19.
What is a blood sweep?
Correct Answer: a rapid visual and palpable head-to-toe check of the front and
back of the casualty for any unrecognized life-threatening bleeding.
Question 20.
What is the proper distance a deliberate tourniquet should be placed from the bleeding
site in TFC?
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Which factors influence TCCC?
Correct Answer: Hostile fire, tactical considerations, wounding patterns,
environmental considerations, level of first-responder training and experience,
equipment constraints and the potential for significant delays in evacuation.
Question 2.
What are the phases of care in TCCC?
Correct Answer: Care Under Fire/Threat, Tactical Field Care, and Tactical
Evacuation Care.
Question 3.
What is the most essential treatment task in CUF?
Correct Answer: Application of a limb tourniquet to control massive bleeding.
Question 4.
What is every first responder's role in CUF?
Correct Answer: Suppress hostile fire and/or establish scene safety, assist in
self-aid, and assist in moving casualties
Question 5.
What does MARCH PAWS stand for?
Correct Answer: Massive bleeding, airway, respirations (breathing), circulation,
and hypothermia AND head injury, pain, antibiotics, wounds, and splints.
Question 6.
What type of tourniquet found in the CMC Aid Bag is used to control massive hemorrhage
in the axilla that is too proximal for effective limb tourniquet application?
Correct Answer: Junctional Tourniquet
Question 7.
When should you inspect your JFAK, CLS bag, CMC bag and other Service-specif-ic medical
kits?
Correct Answer: Before, during, and after all training events and missions.
,Question 8.
What is Care Un-der Fire?
Correct Answer: care given by the first responder at the scene of the injury
while they and the casualty are still under effective hostile fire or near the
threat.
Question 9.
What are the signs of life threatening bleeding?
Correct Answer: • Bright red blood is pooling on the ground • The overlying
clothes are soaked with blood • There is a traumatic AMPUTATION of an arm or
leg • There is pulsatile (pulsing) or steady bleeding from the wound
Question 10.
How long does it take to bleed to death from a complete femoral artery and vein
disruption?
Correct Answer: 3 minutes or less
Question 11.
What are advantages and disadvantages of one-person drags?
Correct Answer: • Advantages: only one rescuer is exposed to enemy fire. •
Disadvantages: they are difficult to perform and can cause the rescuer to tire
quickly.
Question 12.
What are advantages and disadvantages of two-person carries?
Correct Answer: • Advantages: they are useful in situations where drags do not
work well and are quicker than most one-person carries. • Disadvantages: they
cause the rescuers to have a higher silhouette than most drags, and are hard to
accomplish with the added weight of rescuer's and/or the casualty's equipment.
Question 13.
What is the difference between TFC and CUF?
Correct Answer: care rendered once the combat medic/corpsman and casualty
are no longer un-der direct threat from effective enemy fire. This allows for the
time and the relative safety for a more deliberate approach to casualty
assessment and treatment.
, Question 14.
True or False: During TFC, the tactical situation could change back to CUF again at any
time?
Correct Answer: True
Question 15.
What is triage?
Correct Answer: the deliberate sorting of casualties and allocation of limited
treatment resources according to a system of priorities designed to maximize
the number of survivors on the battlefield.
Question 16.
What is a CCP?
Correct Answer: location on the battlefield for the triage, treatment and
monitoring, and the packaging/staging of casualties for evacuation. The CCP
should be established reasonably close to the fight where casualties are likely
to occur, be near natural "lines of drift", provide relative cover and concealment
from the enemy whenever possible, and have access to evacuation routes.
Question 17.
In which phase of care is most of the Tactical Trauma Assessment performed?
Correct Answer: Tactical Field Care
Question 18.
Why is it important to assess the casualty's mental status?
Correct Answer: They may need to be disarmed and to have communications
equipment removed. Following their mental status throughout the assessment
may help responders identify changes in clinical status, leading to early casualty
reassessment.
Question 19.
What is a blood sweep?
Correct Answer: a rapid visual and palpable head-to-toe check of the front and
back of the casualty for any unrecognized life-threatening bleeding.
Question 20.
What is the proper distance a deliberate tourniquet should be placed from the bleeding
site in TFC?
