Course Description:

Basic TECC taught you to stop bleeding and keep the airway open. The advanced course adds interventions that take more training and a steadier hand, such as managing tension pneumothorax or establishing intraosseous access.

Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Advanced is a two-day medical course that builds on basic TECC (emergency casualty care in a civilian tactical environment). After reviewing the basics, you will learn hemorrhage control in places where a tourniquet can't be applied, advanced surgical airway and cervical spine immobilization. You will then recognize and manage tension pneumothorax, master basic ventilation, CPR in a tactical environment, intraosseous access and fluid resuscitation. Then come burn treatment, immobilization of long bones and the pelvis, basic triage, and extracting and moving a casualty over longer distances.

You will practice the interventions on simulators, models and live tissue, and then use them in scenarios. We never have more than 8 students per instructor, so everyone gets attention and you try every intervention yourself.

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Who Is This Course For:

For graduates of the basic TECC course, whether you work in law enforcement, for a security company, in EMS or the fire service, and for civilians who want to go further in tactical medicine. Completing basic TECC, or alternatively CLS, is required.

What You Will Learn:

After two days you have reviewed the TECC basics and can stop bleeding even where a tourniquet won't help. You can perform advanced airway management and cervical spine immobilization, recognize and manage tension pneumothorax, and ventilate and resuscitate a casualty in a tactical environment. You can establish intraosseous access and give fluids, treat burns and immobilize long bones and the pelvis. And you know how to triage casualties and move them over longer distances.

Contents:

Review of the basics, junctional hemorrhage control, advanced surgical airway, cervical spine immobilization techniques, diagnosis and treatment of tension pneumothorax, basic patient ventilation techniques, CPR in a tactical environment, intraosseous access, fluid resuscitation, diagnosis and treatment of burns, immobilization techniques for long bones and the pelvis, types of casualty extraction and transport over longer distances, simulator drills, 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 15 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:

If you want to get to know the military counterpart, you can continue with Combat LifeSaver, which matches the military version and teaches casualty care in combat conditions. At FATALE you will learn to provide care with improvised equipment and a minimum of medical supplies. For members of law enforcement and the military, Active Shooter LE also makes sense, covering rapid action against an armed attacker, evacuation of people and the work of rescue teams at the incident site.

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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