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TCCC: Trauma Medicine for Military and Civilians w/ Archangel Dynamics (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-02-18 12:00:01 +0000 UTCI recently spent a weekend taking a TCCC (Tactical Combat Casualty Care) course from Myles Francis at Archangel Dynamics. TCCC is a program originally developed by the Naval Special Warfare School to improve battlefield survivability by specifically modernizing immediate pre-evacuation care doctrine. Retrospective studies showed that a significant number of fatalities had been potentially savable, and three specific condition showed through in the data:
- Massive hemorrhage
- Blocked airway
- Tension pneumothorax
New practices were developed to specifically address these issues, and after their rollout to the whole infantry for circa 2010, combat fatalities dropped significantly. The most important element of the new care guidelines was much greater use of tourniquets to stop bleeding. Prior dogma had it that use of a tourniquet was for only the worst possible situation, because it was said that tourniquet use would result in limb amputation. This was shown to be quite demonstrably not true, and use of tourniquets is now encouraged as an immediate response to massive limb bleeding.
These military care doctrines have come full circle into use by civilian trauma responders. First-world medical care is generally excellent, but that only matters once an ambulance arrives on the scene of an injury. The injuries addressed by TCCC happen in the civilian world, caused by things like car accidents, industrial accidents, power tool accidents, and civilian shootings, either defensive or criminal.
I came away from this class with a great amount of new information and skills. I'm certainly no paramedic, but what I learned gives me the basics needed to potentially safe a life before the professionals can arrive to a scene. I think it's very worthwhile training to have for anyone, and doubly so for anyone around firearms on a regular basis.
Disclosure: I paid for this class fully out of pocket, and received no remuneration from Myles or Archangel Dynamics.
Comments
Excellent stuff! Another good school for this kind of training is Dark Angel Medical. I have taken their classroom based version twice. They also have a more advanced version similar to this using live "casualties".
TheOlsonOutfit
Thanks for sharing. This is great information
May GOD bless you Ian. OUTSTANDING!
Guido Schriewer
sure behind the curve about any 1st aid. haven't been to a course for a while. use to be every two years I wasn't at a course since 3years plus now. should be once a year for more repetition to cut some stress off IMO. not yet. just a scratch right next to my knee from a 9 that came back. but... could happen.
Fruitbat44
Cool video on an interesting subject. Hmm . . . "You know I thought I was a gonner, I opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was Jesus, but then he started explaining about the FAMAS and I realised it was actually Gun-Jesus . . . "
Matt C
Great video! I shoot PRS matches with a gentleman who happens to be a trauma surgeon. He and his staff taught a class like this and the information was invaluable in my opinion.
Dennis McNamara
Props to you for spreading the word! (sorry, I hit enter too early on my previous comment #&@*)
Marlo Delfin Gonzales
I really appreciate the responsibility of a firearms channel covering this topic and having the mindset of considering it important.
Dennis McNamara
Although not a gun video but a valuable one even so.I remember thinking during your own 'incident' with Karl that it was lucky that Karl was so prepared. (Although luck doesn't really apply as it was really forethought on Karl's part).
Rick Notkin
Sounds like a good class. A minor point: _we_ are first responders these days. We may not be professionally trained, but we are there (well, here) first. Same goes during an attack, individual or mass: we are already there and, hopefully, are prepared to respond.
