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Tactical Combat Casualty Care: Beginnings.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Butler, Frank K. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is a set of evidence-based, best-practice prehospital trauma care guidelines customized for use on the battlefield. The origins of TCCC were nontraditional. The TCCC program began as a Naval Special Warfare biomedical research effort launched after the realization that extremity hemorrhage, a leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield, was not being treated with a readily available and highly effective intervention: the tourniquet. This insight prompted a systematic reevaluation of all aspects of battlefield trauma care that was conducted from 1993 to 1996 as a joint effort by special operations medical personnel and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The product of that 3-year research project was TCCC, the first-ever set of battlefield trauma care guidelines designed to combine good medicine with good small-unit tactics. |
| Starting Page | S12 |
| Ending Page | S17 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.wem.2016.12.004 |
| PubMed reference number | 28284483 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 28 |
| Issue Number | 2S |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.naemt.org/docs/default-source/education-documents/tccc/tccc-updates_092017/tccc-reference-materials/07-tccc-key-publications-(abstracts)/butler-tccc-beginnings-wem-2017.pdf?sfvrsn=de89cd92_2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2016.12.004 |
| Journal | Wilderness & environmental medicine |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |