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HCB TCCC Exam Questions and
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Combat medical training historically was modeled on what civilian courses?
- ✔✔Emergency Medical Technician, Advanced Trauma Life Support
What two groups are needed to optimize battlefield trauma care strategies?
- ✔✔Trauma docs and combat medical personnel
How is military prehospital trauma care different from civilian trauma care?
- ✔✔-hostile fire
-darkness
-environmental extremes
-different wounding epidemiology
-limited equipment
-need for tactical maneuver
-long delays to hospital care
-different medic training and experience
What type of wounds are often caused by IEDs? - ✔✔Junctional
hemorrhage
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What is the SECOND LEADING cause of preventable death on the
battlefield? - ✔✔Tension pneumothorax
What is the FIRST LEADING cause of preventable death on the battlefield?
- ✔✔Hemorrhage
What are the three objectives of TCCC? - ✔✔-treat the casualty
-prevent additional casualties
-complete the mission
The prehospital arm of the Joint Trauma System include: - ✔✔-42
members from all services in the DoD and civilian sector
-trauma surgeons, emergency medicine, critical care physicians, combatant
unit physicians; medical educators; combat medics, corpsmen, and PJs
-100% deployed experience as of 2017
-meet and update TCCC as needed
What was utilized before TCCC? - ✔✔Military Medicine Supplement, 1996
Increased use of TCCC by Special Operations and conventional units
began in what year? - ✔✔2005
Up to ___% of combat deaths are potentially preventable. - ✔✔24
Three phases of care in TCCC - ✔✔-Care Under Fire
-Tactical Field Care
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-TACEVAC Care
In 2017, everyone deploys with at least ___ tourniquets. - ✔✔2
What is the placement of a tourniquet over the uniform? - ✔✔High and tight
(True/False) Airway management is generally best deferred until the
Tactical Field Care phase. - ✔✔True
What are the major concerns for Care Under Fire? - ✔✔Suppression of
enemy fire, moving casualties to cover
What is the best medicine on the battlefield? - ✔✔Fire superiority
Where should you NOT treat the patient if the firefight is ongoing? - ✔✔Kill
zone (The "X")
Casualty Movement Rescue Plan - ✔✔-location of nearest cover
-how best to move him/her to the cover
-the risk to the rescuers
-weight of casualty and rescuer
-distance to be covered
-use of suppression fire and smoke to best advantage**
-recover the casualty's weapons
(True/False) Penetrating head and neck injuries require C-spine
stabilization. - ✔✔False
HCB TCCC Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Solved
Combat medical training historically was modeled on what civilian courses?
- ✔✔Emergency Medical Technician, Advanced Trauma Life Support
What two groups are needed to optimize battlefield trauma care strategies?
- ✔✔Trauma docs and combat medical personnel
How is military prehospital trauma care different from civilian trauma care?
- ✔✔-hostile fire
-darkness
-environmental extremes
-different wounding epidemiology
-limited equipment
-need for tactical maneuver
-long delays to hospital care
-different medic training and experience
What type of wounds are often caused by IEDs? - ✔✔Junctional
hemorrhage
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What is the SECOND LEADING cause of preventable death on the
battlefield? - ✔✔Tension pneumothorax
What is the FIRST LEADING cause of preventable death on the battlefield?
- ✔✔Hemorrhage
What are the three objectives of TCCC? - ✔✔-treat the casualty
-prevent additional casualties
-complete the mission
The prehospital arm of the Joint Trauma System include: - ✔✔-42
members from all services in the DoD and civilian sector
-trauma surgeons, emergency medicine, critical care physicians, combatant
unit physicians; medical educators; combat medics, corpsmen, and PJs
-100% deployed experience as of 2017
-meet and update TCCC as needed
What was utilized before TCCC? - ✔✔Military Medicine Supplement, 1996
Increased use of TCCC by Special Operations and conventional units
began in what year? - ✔✔2005
Up to ___% of combat deaths are potentially preventable. - ✔✔24
Three phases of care in TCCC - ✔✔-Care Under Fire
-Tactical Field Care
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-TACEVAC Care
In 2017, everyone deploys with at least ___ tourniquets. - ✔✔2
What is the placement of a tourniquet over the uniform? - ✔✔High and tight
(True/False) Airway management is generally best deferred until the
Tactical Field Care phase. - ✔✔True
What are the major concerns for Care Under Fire? - ✔✔Suppression of
enemy fire, moving casualties to cover
What is the best medicine on the battlefield? - ✔✔Fire superiority
Where should you NOT treat the patient if the firefight is ongoing? - ✔✔Kill
zone (The "X")
Casualty Movement Rescue Plan - ✔✔-location of nearest cover
-how best to move him/her to the cover
-the risk to the rescuers
-weight of casualty and rescuer
-distance to be covered
-use of suppression fire and smoke to best advantage**
-recover the casualty's weapons
(True/False) Penetrating head and neck injuries require C-spine
stabilization. - ✔✔False
