Army medicine has been developed through years of war-fighting. This up-to-date manual outlines the army's approach to trauma care at point of injury. Identified as version 5, published in 2017.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
This is appropriate for self-paced learning or as supplemental material to trauma-based lectures.
Individual resource or class lecture to support concepts of trauma care in the field of combat or elsewhere, such as multiple casualties.
Technical Requirements:
PDF viewer
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This manual for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) provides evidence-based and battlefield-proven guidelines for medical care with the goal of reducing deaths at the point of injury (POI).
Users will:
Reduce the number of combat deaths in the prehospital phase of care by establishing standardized training and protocols developed through the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC).
Target Student Population:
Professional, specifically military
TCCC-Medical Provider (TCCC-MP) is training for medical personnel.TCCC-All Combatants (TCCC-AC) is training for first responders and nonmedical personnel. TCCC training is performed in three phases: Care underfire (CUF), tactical field care (TFC), and tactical evacuation care (TEC)
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Entry-level medical training, such as EMT level.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Well-organized and focused.
Very comprehensive and detailed content that appears applicable in field casualties.
Content is well defined through chapters and appendices. It is supported by references and committee review.
Concerns:
PDF version has a limited menu to access front/back cover; increase interactive table of contents would greatly enhance access to material versus scrolling up or down throughout.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
It is clear and easy to follow.
The potential for effectiveness is significant in terms of the content addressing degrees of severity in casualty and outlining treatment. It's simplification lends to medics in immediate treatment, understanding of triage, rationale for treatments, and potential for outcomes.
Concerns:
There are no clear learning outcomes or instructional objectives includes.
A list of clearly outlined objectives would greatly benefit the content and learner. Noted as 2017; potentially there may be an updated version.
Including knowledge checks (questions, case studies, etc.) would improve the material.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Easy to navigate by scrolling through content that is well outlined.
Access to pdf was in working order.
Creative Commons:
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