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Tactical Combat Casualty
      Care Update

          Harold Montgomery
             17 May 2018

               Disclaimers

“The opinions or assertions contained herein
are the private views of the author and are not
to be construed as official or as reflecting the
views of the Departments of the Army, Air
Force, Navy or the Department of Defense.”
- No financial interests in items discussed
- Off label uses: TXA, OTFC, Ketamine

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Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant
will be able to:
- Become familiar with battlefield trauma care
advances pioneered by Tactical Combat Casualty
Care (TCCC)
- Discuss recent advances in TCCC
- Discuss current capability gaps in TCCC

Tactical Combat Casualty Care

The Prehospital Arm of the Joint Trauma System

              • Medics, Corpsmen, PJs
TCCC          • Combat Lifesavers
              • All Service Member Self/Buddy Care

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Intro to TCCC

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Link to Intro to TCCC Video on Deployed Medicine   Link to Intro to TCCC Video on YouTube

         TCCC: Beginnings

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       Tourniquets: The Primary
          Driver for TCCC
“The striking feature was to see healthy
  young Americans with a single injury of the
  distal extremity arrive at the magnificently
  equipped field hospital, usually within
  hours, but dead on arrival. In fact there were
  193 deaths due to wounds of the upper and
  lower extremities, …… of the 2600.”
                          CAPT J.S. Maughon
                             Mil Med 1970
* Extremity hemorrhage math in Vietnam:
  193 of 2600 = 7.4% x 46,233 fatalities = 3,421
  preventable US deaths from extremity hemorrhage
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Tourniquets Reconsidered –
        The Primary Driver for TCCC
• ATLS 1992: Tourniquets strongly discouraged
• Fear of ischemic damage to limbs - BUT
• Exsanguination from extremity hemorrhage was the
  #1 cause of preventable death in Vietnam - AND
• Tourniquets can control extremity hemorrhage
• Used routinely during orthopedic surgery and limbs
  are not lost there as a result
• Also – even if you had to choose between death and
  losing a leg….
• Bottom line: The “No Tourniquet” rule was NOT
  evidence-based and was NOT logic based.         9

             Pulling the Thread –
              Medical Issues
Other Aspects of Care in 1992 that Needed Review
• Tactical context in battlefield trauma care
• Fluid resuscitation and IV access
• Battlefield analgesia
• Prevention of coagulopathy
• Spinal precautions
• Battlefield CPR
• Treatment of tension pneumothorax
• Battlefield antibiotics
• Undertaken as a Naval Special Warfare Biomedical
  R+D project                                   10

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Prehospital Trauma Care:
               Military vs Civilian
•   Hostile fire
•   Darkness
•   Environmental extremes
•   Different wounding
      epidemiology
•   Limited equipment
•   Multiple casualties
•   Need for tactical maneuver
•   Long delays to hospital care
•   Different provider training and experience
•   What do we do about this?                       11

          Tactical Combat Casualty Care
         (TCCC) : A Different Approach

• Battlefield trauma care research effort – Special
  Operations and USUHS: 1993-1996
• Reviewed most recent trauma care literature
• Combat environment and mission considered
• Combat medic training and equipment considered
• Project included input from combat medics,
  corpsmen, and pararescuemen (PJs)
• Evidence-based – INCLUDING requiring evidence
  for current practice at that time
• Goal – To prevent ALL preventable deaths          12

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Tactical Combat Casualty
    Care in Special Operations

          Military Medicine Supplement
                   August 1996

              Evidence-based trauma
             care guidelines customized
              for use on the battlefield

     TCCC Lessons Learned

3. If What You’re Doing is Not
Working - Do Something Else.

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Tactical Combat
         Casualty Care (TCCC)
• First used by Navy SEALs,
   75th Ranger Regiment, and Air
   Force Pararescue in 1997
• PHTLS, ACS COT and NAEMT
     endorsement 1999
• Most of Special Operations and
  most conventional forces were
  NOT using TCCC at the start of
  the war in Afghanistan.
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          Tourniquets Early in the Iraq
           and Afghanistan Conflicts
• Increased use of tourniquets by both Special
   Operations and conventional units beginning in 2005

 The Drivers:
 • Holcomb study: “Causes of SOF Deaths 2001-
   2004” – highlighted need for TCCC
 • USAISR tourniquet study by Walters et al (2005)
 • TCCC Transition Initiative begun in 2005

                               Butler – ACS Bulletin - 2015

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Tourniquets Early in the Iraq
          and Afghanistan Conflicts

The Drivers:
• USSOCOM TCCC message - March 2005
• USCENTCOM tourniquet and hemostatic agents
  (HemCon) message – 2005

    After these two events, tourniquet use became
   more and more prevalent among US combat forces.

                               Butler – ACS Bulletin - 2015

         Tourniquets – Kragh et al
          Annals of Surgery 2009

• Ibn Sina Hospital, Baghdad, 2006
• Tourniquets are saving lives on the battlefield
• 31 lives saved in 6 months period by the use of
   prehospital tourniquets
• No loss of limbs from tourniquet ischemia
• Author estimated 1000+ lives saved with TQs 18

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TCCC: How Do We Know
                 That It’s Working?
•    Near universal DoD acceptance after 17 years of war
•    Tarpey 2005: “Overwhelming Success” in 3rd ID
•    Kragh 2008: Estimated over 1000 lives saved with tourniquet use –
     in 2008
•    Kotwal 2011: Lowest incidence of preventable deaths ever
     documented by a combat unit
•    Savage 2011: Highest casualty survival rate in Canadian Military’s
     history
•    Butler 2015: 67% reduction in deaths from extremity hemorrhage
     from 2006 to 2011
•    Acceptance by NAEMT/American College of Surgeons /Hartford
     Consensus/WH Stop the Bleed
•    USCENTCOM TCCC requirement – November 2017
•    DoD Instruction on TCCC 1322.24 – 16 March 2018                 19

               Individual First Aid Kits
                       (IFAKs)
       At this point in time, the US
      Military has more experience
    with tourniquets and hemostatic
        dressings than any other
    organization in history. (14 years
     of war and 50,000 + casualties)
                                                   Cost: $128
    • In 2001 – very few American combatants had
        tourniquets - no one had hemostatic dressings
    • In 2018 - no American combatant goes onto the
       battlefield without an IFAK that contains both

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Battlefield Trauma
         Care: Then and Now

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               Battlefield Trauma Care:
                         1992
•   Based on trauma courses NOT developed for combat
•   Medics taught NOT to use tourniquets
•   No hemostatic agents
•   No junctional tourniquets
•   Large volume crystalloid fluid resuscitation for shock
•   Civil War-vintage technology for battlefield analgesia IM
    morphine)
•   SOF medics – IV cutdowns for difficult venous access
•   No tactical context for care rendered
•   2 large bore IVs on all casualties with significant trauma
•   No focus on prevention of trauma-related coagulopathy
•   Heavy emphasis on endotracheal intubation                22

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Battlefield Trauma Care:
                         Now
•   Phased care in TCCC
•   Aggressive use of tourniquets in CUF
•   Combat Gauze as hemostatic agent
•   Aggressive needle thoracostomy
•   Sit up and lean forward airway positioning
•   Extraglottic airways – i-gel
•   Surgical airways for maxillofacial trauma
•   Hypotensive resuscitation with blood products
•   IVs only when needed/IO access if required
•   PO meds, OTFC, ketamine as “Triple Option”
       for battlefield analgesia
•   Hypothermia prevention; avoid NSAIDs
•   Battlefield antibiotics
•   Tranexamic acid – given ASAP when indicated
•   Junctional Tourniquets/XStat                    23

        TCCC in DoD Policy

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ASDHA TCCC Letter
                            14 February 2014

Called for “…uniform TCCC training throughout the Department.”

                CENTCOM Directive
                           06 November 2017

      Mandates TCCC-MP for all medical personnel (medics, physicians, PA, etc…)
      Mandates TCCC-AC for all non-medical personnel entering CENTCOM AOR.
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DOD Instruction on
     Medical Readiness Training

                16 March 2018

        DOD Instruction on
     Medical Readiness Training

Section 2.a.b Policy
   “TCCC is the DoD standard of care for first
responders (medical and non-medical) …..All
Service members receive role based TCCC training
and certification in accordance with the skill level
(i.e., All Service Members, Combat Lifesaver,
Combat Medic/Corpsmen, and Combat
Paramedic/Provider) outlined by the Joint Trauma
System, the DoD’s Center of Excellence for trauma
as designated in DoD Instruction (DoDI) 6040.47.

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ASDHA TCCC Implementation
                         17 April 2018

Services to have standardized role-based TCCC training integrated
                    no later than 30 April 2020.                    29

       ASDHA TCCC Implementation
                     NLT 30 April 2020

• Integration of basic TCCC skills into initial-entry
  training (BCT/Boot camp)
• Standardized TCCC Training & certification:
   –   Service Members
   –   Combat Lifesaver
   –   Medics/Corpsman
   –   Advanced Providers
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How Is TCCC Updated?
                        The Committee
                       on TCCC and the
                        TCCC Working
                           Group

 TCCC will always be a work in progress.   31

     TCCC Lessons Learned

5. Maintain an Active Search
 for Good Ideas – Wherever
  They Can Be Found – and
  Process Them As Though
    Lives Depended on It
       Because, indeed – they do.

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Changes to the TCCC
              Guidelines

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              TCCC Team 2018
•   CoTCCC
•   Special Operations Medicine
•   Joint Trauma System
•   USAISR and other military medical research
    facilities
•   Service Surgeon General/TMO offices
•   Coalition partner nations
•   Combatant unit medical officers
•   DHA Medical Logistics Office
•   Combat Medical Schoolhouses
•   Other government agencies                    34

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Committee on Tactical Combat
          Casualty Care (CoTCCC)
• First funded by USSOCOM in 2001-2002 at the
  Naval Operational Medicine Institute (NOMI)
• Later sponsored by Navy and Army Surgeons
  General and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical
  Research
• 42 members - all services
• Trauma Surgeons, EM and Critical Care
  physicians; operational physicians and PAs;
  medical educators; combat medics, corpsmen, and
  PJs
• 100% deployed experience in 2016
• Relocated to the Defense Health Board in 2007
  at the direction of ASD/HA
• Moved to the Joint Trauma System in 2013
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           TCCC Change Process
                  2018
•   Need for change identified
•   Prioritization
•   Sponsor and author team designated
•   Draft change paper prepared
•   Change presented to TCCC Working Group
•   Change revised as needed
•   CoTCCC vote on change – 2/3 majority required
•   Change approved by JTS Director
•   Change published in the JSOM
•   TCCC Guidelines and curriculum updated          36

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Recent Advances in TCCC     37

             TCCC Changes:
                 2013
• TCCC Casualty Card (DD1380)
  – Kotwal
• Vented chest seals
  – Butler/CAPT Don Bennett
• Junctional tourniquets
  – Kotwal
• Triple-Option Analgesia
  – Butler

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TCCC Changes:
                  2014

• Alternate hemostatic dressings
  – Bennett
• Fluid resuscitation
  – Butler
• Updated tourniquet use guidelines
  – Shackelford

              TCCC Changes:
                  2015
• Zofran in for Phenergan
  – Onifer
• CricKey for Surgical Airways
  – Mabry
• Abdominal Aortic Junctional TQ
  – Not recommended
• XStat
  – Sims/Bowling

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TCCC Changes:
                  2016
 • ITClamp
   –   Not Recommended

 • Pelvic Binders
   –   Shackelford

 • Comprehensive Review
   – Montgomery

               TCCC Changes:
                   2017

• Extraglottic Airways in TCCC
  –Otten – approved 25 August 2017

• Management of Suspected Tension
      Pneumothorax in TCCC
  – Butler - approved 19 Jan 2018

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Extraglottic Airways in
                        TCCC

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                Extraglottic Airways in
                        TCCC
1) Adds extraglottic airways (EGAs) as an option for airway
management in Tactical Field Care.
2) Recommends the i-gel as the preferred EGA because its gel-
filled cuff makes it simpler to use than EGAs with air-filled cuffs
and eliminates the need for cuff pressure monitoring.
3) Notes that should an EGA with an air-filled cuff be used, the
pressure in the cuff must be monitored, especially during and
after changes in altitude.

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Extraglottic Airways in
                          TCCC

4) Emphasizes that extraglottic airways will not be tolerated by a
casualty unless he or she is deeply unconscious and notes that an
NPA is a better option if there is doubt about whether the casualty will
tolerate an EGA.
 5) Adds the use of suction when available and appropriate (eg, when
 needed to remove blood and vomitus) as an adjunct to airway
 management.
 6) Clarifies the wording regarding cervical spine stabilization to
 emphasize that it is not needed for casualties who have sustained
 only penetrating trauma (without blunt force trauma.)

                  Extraglottic Airways in
                          TCCC

7) Reinforces that surgical cricothyroidotomies should not be
performed simply because a casualty is unconscious.

8) Provides a reminder that for casualties with facial trauma or
facial burns with suspected inhalation injury, neither NPAs nor
EGAs may be adequate for airway management, and a surgical
cricothyroidotomy may be required.

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Extraglottic Airways in
                       TCCC

9) Adds that pulse oximetry monitoring is a useful adjunct to
assess airway patency and that capnography should be also be
used in the TACEVAC phase of care.

10) Reinforces that a casualty’s airway status may change over
time and that he or she should be frequently re-assessed.

               Management of Suspected
             Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                      TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

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Management of Suspected
            Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                      TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

1. Continues the aggressive approach to suspecting and
treating tension pneumothorax based on mechanism of
injury and respiratory distress that TCCC has advocated for
in the past, as opposed to waiting until shock develops as a
result of the tension pneumothorax before treating. The
new wording does, however, emphasize that shock and
cardiac arrest may ensue if the tension pneumothorax is
not treated promptly.

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              Management of Suspected
            Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                      TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

2. Adds additional emphasis to the importance of the
current TCCC recommendation to perform needle
decompression (NDC) on both sides of the chest on a
combat casualty with torso trauma who suffers a traumatic
cardiac arrest before reaching a medical treatment facility.

3. Adds a 10 gauge, 3.25 inch needle/catheter unit as an
alternative to the previously recommended 14 gauge, 3.25
inch needle/catheter unit as recommended devices for
needle decompression.

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Management of Suspected
            Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                       TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

4. Designates the location at which NDC should be
performed as either the lateral site (5th intercostal space
{ICS} at the anterior axillary line {AAL}) or the anterior site
(2nd ICS at the midclavicular line {MCL}).

5. Adds two key elements to the description of the NDC
procedure: insert the needle/catheter unit at a
perpendicular angle to the chest wall all the way to the hub,
then hold the needle/catheter unit in place for 5-10 seconds
before removing the needle in order to allow for full
decompression of the pleural space to occur.

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              Management of Suspected
            Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                       TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

6. Defines what constitutes a successful NDC, using
specific metrics such as: an observed hiss of air escaping
from the chest during the NDC procedure; a decrease in
respiratory distress; an increase in hemoglobin oxygen
saturation; and/or an improvement in signs of shock that
may be present.

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Management of Suspected
            Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                     TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

7. Recommends that only two needle decompressions be
attempted before continuing on to the “Circulation” portion
of the TCCC Guidelines. After two NDCs have been
performed, the combat medical provider should proceed to
the fourth element in the “MARCH” algorithm and
evaluate/treat the casualty for shock as outlined in the
Circulation.
Since the manifestations of hemorrhagic shock and shock
from tension pneumothorax may be similar, the TCCC
Guidelines now recommend proceeding to treatment for
hemorrhagic shock (when present) after two NDCs have
been performed.
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              Management of Suspected
            Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                     TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

8. Adds a paragraph to the end of the Circulation section of
the TCCC Guidelines that calls for consideration of
untreated tension pneumothorax as a potential cause for
shock that has not responded to fluid resuscitation. This is
an important aspect of treating shock in combat casualties
that was not presently addressed in the TCCC Guidelines.

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Management of Suspected
           Tension Pneumothorax in TCCC
                    TCCC Guideline Change 17-02

9. Adds finger thoracostomy (simple thoracostomy) and
chest tubes as additional treatment options to treat
suspected tension pneumothorax when further treatment is
deemed necessary after two unsuccessful NDC attempts –
if the combat medical provider has the skills, experience,
and authorizations to perform these advanced interventions
and the casualty is in shock. These two more invasive
procedures are recommended only when the casualty is in
refractory shock, not as the initial treatment.

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       TCCC Proposed Changes:
          Underway in 2018

• Advanced Resuscitative Care
  – Butler

• Relook at Tourniquets in TCCC
  – Montgomery

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Traditional TCCC Casualty
                         Flow

Individual      Medic/Corpsman   Medical Capability
  w/IFAK          w/ AidBag      On Evac Platform
                                  w/ More Equip

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             Operational Casualty Flow

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Advanced Field/Resuscitation
                  Care Phase
• Beyond a single medic with an aidbag, but still in
  prehospital/Role 1 environment
• Inclusion of advanced procedures at CCP / BAS
  / Shock Trauma Plt / FOB Aid Station / SOF
  Medic setting by advanced providers or forward
  medical teams
• **NOT to be confused with PFC or Role 2**
• Training Requirement and Expanded Capability
  for Role 1 Providers/Advanced Medics.
• Multiple Hands

           Advanced Field/Resuscitation
                  Care Phase
•   Fresh Whole Blood/Blood Products
•   REBOA
•   Definitive Junctional Management
•   Advanced Airway Management/Suctioning
•   UltraSound
•   Burn Fluid Resuscitation
•   Advanced Monitoring
•   Improved Hypothermia Prevention
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Tourniquet Review
• Validate / Re-validate currently
  recommended tourniquets
• Review additional tourniquets
  – Potentially recommend additional TQs
  – Identify why some TQs are not recommended
• Define CoTCCC-Recommended TQ
  Specifications
• Refine the CoTCCC process for reviewing
  previously recommended items.          61

               TCCC
            Engagement

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All TCCC change
papers are
published in the
JSOM
 - Searchable in
  PUBMED
- Permanent part
  of the published
  medical literature

 TCCC Guidelines:
     The What
 TCCC Curriculum:
     The How
 MPHTLS Textbook:
     The Why
 TCCC Change Papers
     The Detailed Why
“Military units that have trained all of their members in
 Tactical Combat Casualty Care have documented the
  lowest incidence of preventable deaths among their
      casualties in the history of modern warfare.”

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TCCC Journal Watch
                            TCCC Article Abstracts:
                       Monthly focused PUBMED search
                        of prehospital trauma literature

                        Available on Deployed Medicine, JTS Website and through the TCCC Distro

                  TCCC in Social Media

                                        @CommitteeonTCCC                                      tc3committee
    @CoTCCC                             @JointTraumaSyst
@JointTraumaSystem

                                                                                              Channel Name:
                                                                                                CoTCCC
 https://www.linkedin.com/company/jointtraumasystem                                           Committee-on-
                                                                                                  TCCC
Join the LinkedIn Discussion Groups:
TCCC (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12036508)

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Social Media
Collaboration
  Network

     JTS Official Website
     http://jts.amedd.army.mil/

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CoTCCC on JTS Site
  http://jts.amedd.army.mil/

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Deployed Medicine

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Medic Survey 2016

What Medics Want:
• MOBILE Access
• NO CAC
  Requirement
• Quick Knowledge
  Access
• Teaching Tools

                Deployed Medicine
• DM is a Defense Health Agency-sponsored
  project to
  – trial new innovative learning models.
  – improving readiness and performance of deployed
    military medical personnel.
  – deliver personalized, dynamic learning using the most
    current and accessible technology.
  – enabling a self-directed and continuous study of
    medical best practices and lessons learned.

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Website:
www.deployedmedicine.com

      Previous www.cotccc.com
  is migrating to Deployed Medicine

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                                      https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deployed-medicine/id1203051672?mt=8
                                      https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allogy.deployedmedicine

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TCCC & JTS on DM

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      Synchronized Content
Mobile App        Website

                             76

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TCCC Collections

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   Guidelines

                   78

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Videos

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Podcasts
           Available on Deployed Medicine

      Also Available as Podcast Subscriptions

 Subscribe on iTunes: Search for “Combat Casualty Care”

 Subscribe on Android at:
 http://subscribeonandroid.com/tccc.blubrry.net/feed/podca
 st/

 RSS Feed for the Combat Casualty Care Podcast:
 http://tccc.blubrry.net/feed/podcast/

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Pocket Guides

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Pocket Guide

                82

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References

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Instructor Materials

                       84

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           TCCC Curriculum:
        DM and NAEMT Websites

• Also direct mailings to DoD combat medical
  schoolhouses
• Also Special Operations Medical Association
  and JSOM websites                           86

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Performance Improvement
Quality Assurance
Lessons Learned

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               Casualty AAR System & DoDTR

                                   • Gather Lessons Learned
                                      directly from medics
                                             involved

                                   • Collect Prehospital Data
                                      to improve training &
                                           equipment

                                        • NOT punitive or
                                     investigative, but is PI
TCCC POI AAR         TACEVAC AAR

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Casualty AAR System & DoDTR

     Available for download on the JTS Site: http://jts.amedd.army.mil

                                                            Send to:

                                    usarmy.jbsa.medcom-aisr.list.jts-prehospital@mail.mil

                                              NIPR: SOF-Casualty-AAR@socom.mil or

                                              SIPR: SOF-Casualty-AAR@socom.smil.mil

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Quality Assurance
in TCCC Training:
 The JTS TCCC
   Curriculum
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TCCC Training in the DoD: 2018
                         - Incompletely trained
                         - Incorrectly trained
                         - Incompletely executed
                         - Need a STANDARD

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        Saving Lives on the Battlefield
             I (2012) and II (2013)
• Surveys of prehospital care
  in Afghanistan
• Combined Joint Trauma
  System/USCENTCOM team
• Directed interviews with
  hundreds of physicians,
  PAs, and combat medical
  personnel in combat units
• COL Russ Kotwal (I)
• COL Samual Sauer (II)

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Findings from the Two
          CENTCOM/JTS Prehospital
              Care Assessments
• TCCC is not being implemented evenly across
  the battle space
• These variations are not just SOF versus
  conventional forces difference
• Why is this happening?
• “We teach physicians ATLS (maybe) and then
  assign them to operational units and expect
  that they can effectively supervise medics who
  have been taught battlefield trauma care based
  on TCCC concepts.”

           Non-Standard TCCC
                Courses
• Many “TCCC” courses (unit-based, service-
  based, and vendor-based) – aren’t!
• Incorrect messaging
   – Instructor drift
   – “Never take off a tourniquet in the field”
   – “Let the tourniquet down every 15 minutes”
• Incorrect messaging has been DIRECTLY
  associated with adverse outcomes
• Inappropriate training
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RECENT Preventable
             Adverse Outcomes
• One Special Operations member suffered a leg
  amputation from prolonged tourniquet use – only
  amputation from tourniquet use in US forces. Unit
  members had been told never to take off a tourniquet in
  the field at their “TCCC” course. Tourniquet was left on
  for over 8 hours.
• A casualty suffered pulmonary edema at a foreign
  medical facility from getting 9 liters of NS during
  resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock
• 2 deaths from unrecognized tension pneumothorax
• Respiratory arrest from using midazolam after fentanyl
  lozenges

            TCCC Training – The
            Need for a Standard

• In the absence of a standard high-
  quality TCCC course with a
  professionally developed curriculum,
  "TCCC Training" in the DoD can wind
  up being an hour of Powerpoint slides
  or 11 days of inappropriate training - or
  anything in between.

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Variable TCCC
                      Instructors
 • TCCC Instructor # 1
    – Up to date on current TCCC Guidelines, Practices,
      and Curricula
 • TCCC Instructor # 2
    – Teaching what they learned “when” they learned it but
      not up-to-date.
 • TCCC Instructor # 3
    – Selectively teaching the parts they agree with or are
      comfortable with or understand.
 • TCCC Instructor # 4
    – Teaching their own “interpretation” of TCCC.            97

          Joint Trauma System
        White Paper to Service SGs

• Outlined the problem
• Documented the bad outcomes from non-standardized
  TCCC training
• Recommended that we use the JTS-developed TCCC
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  curriculum as taught through NAEMT.

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Training Standard

                        NAEMT

                           ACLS/BLS – American Heart Assn
                           ATLS – ACS Committee on Trauma
                           TCCC – JTS CoTCCC
                                   ACS COT and NAEMT

    * NAEMT training sites can be established at military
     bases anywhere in the world or with commercial TCCC
     training vendors

                     NAEMT Courses
                       Advantages
• They use the JTS/CoTCCC curricula.
• They QA their instructors.
• Have a system for establishing training sites
• Certification card at the end of the course.
• NAEMT database of all who complete the course.
• Less expensive than commercial training vendors.
• Cost: $10 per student (medics, physicians, PAs - who
  need to be certified)
• Potentially free for non-medical combatants (but no
  NAEMT certification cards)
• The course with the “Shock Labs” - cost $2000 per 100
  student plus 10 days travel (another $2000)

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White House:
      “Bystander – Stop the Bleed”

• White House meeting on this topic 6 October 2015
• Emphasis was on BYSTANDERS being able to
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43 States and 15 Nations over a 10-day period.

                         30,000+ Trained

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                     Thank You!                                            @CommitteeonTCCC

                      Harold Montgomery                                                 CoTCCC
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@CoTCCC            Operational Medicine Liaison                                         on-TCCC

                 Joint Trauma System / CoTCCC
                Harold.r.montgomery2.ctr@mail.mil
 tc3committee
                  HRMontgomery75@gmail.com
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