TECC 10/30/23 question n answers graded A+ 2023/2024

TECC 10/30/23saving your own - correct answer • Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course • Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Guidelines • Battlefield medicine Sources for class TECC - correct answer • Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course • Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Guidelines • Battlefield medicine What skills do you learn in TECC - correct answer Rapid Triage and Assessment of the Wounded Life-Threatening Bleeding Identification Tourniquet Application Pressure Dressing/Direct Pressure Wound Packing Basic Airway Management Penetrating Chest Wound Management Patient Positioning - Recovery Position NPA Evacuation of the Injured Lifts, Drags, and Carries First care provider - correct answer • Preventable trauma deaths • Injury deaths: 306,086 / 61,217 (20%) • Source: National Vital Statistics System- Mortality Data (2021) •TECC goal • Identify and treat casualties with preventable cause of death • Lessons from the field: • CONUS oversea /OCONUS-state side Where did TECC a come from - correct answer • Developed 2010 • TCCC taken from the battlefield to civilian response • TCCC is frequently credited as one of the major initiatives that has resulted in the lowest combat mortality rates in recorded history • Evidence-based and best practice trauma care guidelines for civilian high-threat prehospital environments Combat care - correct answer • Guidelines for managing trauma •All-hazards approach •Adoptions • Multi-discipline • Fire/EMS/L.E./ Communications First Principle - correct answer First Principle Casualty scenarios in dynamic events usually entail both a medical problem and a tactical problem - correct answer Second Principle The best possible outcome for the injured and the overall situation is desired. Save as many people as possible. - correct answer Third Principle Good medicine can sometimes be bad tactics, and bad tactics can get everyone killed and/or cause mission failure