Course Description:

Police officers patrol the streets, so they often reach a casualty several minutes before an ambulance dispatched from its station. The same goes for firefighters or a passerby. Tactical Emergency Casualty Care teaches you to use those minutes so that the casualty survives until they are handed over to medical personnel.

TECC (Tactical Emergency Casualty Care) is a two-day medical course in emergency casualty care in a tactical environment. It is based on military medicine procedures adapted for dangerous civilian environments, and its content is set by the criteria of the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (CoTECC). That is why the basic level is built on simple drills and non-invasive techniques, and more complex interventions only come in the advanced course.

You will learn how casualty care differs in the individual phases of a response and how to assess the casualty's condition using the primary survey. Then come the basics of hemorrhage control, opening and managing the airway, diagnosing and treating torso injuries, controlling submassive bleeding, treating shock and preparing the casualty for handover to medical personnel. You will try everything in scenarios. We provide the training medical supplies, and you don't need to buy any tactical gear.

We never have more than 8 students per instructor, so you practice every procedure yourself and we correct you. Over 300 students have completed this course.

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Who Is This Course For:

For police officers, security company personnel, EMS personnel and firefighters, as well as civilians who want to be able to help a casualty in a dangerous environment. You don't need any previous medical training; the course starts from the basics.

What You Will Learn:

After two days you know how casualty care in a tactical environment is different and how it varies in the individual phases of the TECC system. You can assess a casualty's condition using the primary survey algorithm, stop bleeding and open and manage the airway. You can recognize and treat torso injuries, start treating shock and prepare the casualty for handover to medical personnel. And you have tested it all in scenarios.

CLS or TECC?

Both courses are built on the same foundation: stopping massive bleeding, managing the airway, treating torso injuries, handling shock and systematically assessing the casualty. They differ in the environment they are designed for. Combat LifeSaver is based on the military TCCC system and assumes combat, so it has an extra day devoted to Care Under Fire. You will learn how to use commands to get a casualty to apply their own tourniquet and take cover, how to pull them out under covering fire, for example with an extraction strap, and how to work in a team that is still in contact. Tactical Emergency Casualty Care is the civilian counterpart for police officers, EMS personnel and firefighters. It is based on the same principles but focuses on civilian situations, such as an active shooter attack or a mass casualty incident, and on quickly handing the casualty over to EMS. If you are a soldier, reservist or contractor, choose CLS. If you respond in a civilian environment, TECC will be a better fit.

Contents:

Specifics of providing prehospital emergency care in a tactical environment, patient care at the individual levels of the TECC system, assessing the patient's condition in a tactical environment (primary survey algorithm), basics of hemorrhage control, opening and managing the airway, torso injuries and their diagnosis and treatment, controlling submassive bleeding, shock treatment, preparing the patient for handover to medical personnel, scenarios.

Required Equipment:

Writing materials, comfortable tactical clothing or a combat uniform and solid outdoor or duty footwear (both suited to the current weather and outdoor temperatures), and if you like, a plate carrier or ballistic vest with gear pouches and AR15 magazine pouches, a helmet or boonie hat, shooting glasses, tactical gloves and an individual training first aid kit. You can of course complete the course in comfortable tactical or civilian clothing without having to buy expensive tactical gear; all you need is protective glasses.

If you would like to try modern ballistic gear, click on your chosen course date and you can rent one of the plate carriers on offer, including ballistic plates, or a top-of-the-line Galvion ballistic helmet.

We will provide you with our training medical supplies. If you have old clothes at home that you're about to throw away, we'd be glad if you brought them to the course. In the scenarios we splash them with fake blood and cut them open during treatment, so you'll be helping us make the training more realistic.

Weapon:

Where the training requires it, we will lend you our inert training replica weapons free of charge.

Medical Courses and the Law:

Czech law does not regulate participation in medical courses in any way. You don't need any permit, and it doesn't matter whether you are a citizen of the Czech Republic, another EU country or a country outside the EU. Czech law sets no fixed minimum age, but a minor participant must be reasonably mature, both mentally and physically. We do not recommend registering children under 12 for a course this intensive.

Timing:

Class starts at 9:00 am. Please arrive at the venue no later than 8:30–8:45 am. The course usually ends around 6:00 pm, with a 30-minute lunch break during the day.

Venue:

We run our courses at various locations across the Czech Republic. You will find the exact venue for each date in the calendar, just click on the date. For multi-day courses that use more than one location, all venues are listed there.

Please check the venue carefully before booking. The same course often runs at different locations on different dates. Every now and then a student books a date expecting it to be at our home base, the Oleško shooting range, only to find out on the day that the course is taking place in Moravia, some 300 km away. To avoid this, always click on the date before booking and check where that particular date takes place.

Language:

Czech with English translation available.

Accommodation and Food:

Accommodation is not included in the course fee, each participant arranges and pays for it themselves. There is a 30-minute lunch break, so bring food that doesn't need cooking or ordering, such as an Adventure Menu type ration, an MRE or food from home, and enough to drink for the whole day.

Where to Go Next:

The direct follow-up is Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Advanced, which adds hemorrhage control in places where a tourniquet can't be applied, advanced surgical airway, managing tension pneumothorax, intraosseous access, immobilization and moving a casualty over longer distances. At FATALE you will learn to provide care with improvised equipment. Some graduates then add shooting with Dynamic Pistol 1, where you learn safe pistol handling, aimed fire, drawing from the holster and clearing malfunctions.

Have a Question?

You will find answers to the most common questions in our Questions and Answers section. Didn't find what you were looking for? Write or call us using any of our contacts, we will be happy to help.

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