TCCC Flashcards
3 stages of TCCC
Care Under Fire
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation Care
Tourniquet placement if you cannot see site if bleed
High tight and in pocket
Care Under Fire questions
Are you hurt
Can you fight
Can you move
Apply a tourniquet
First step of tactical field care
Security perimeter
Maintain tactical awareness
Big pipe search
Hemostatic adjuncts
Felix gauze Chito gauze Chat gauze Stat Itclamp
Xstat
Syringe with sponges
Good for narrow tract deep junctional wounds
Syringe with sponges
X-Stat
Best tool for deep narrow tract junctional
X-Stat
Best bleeding control of neck & head wounds
ITclamp
Needed after you apply hemostatic dressings
3 minutes of pressure
Important thing to remember if using iTclamp
Can use on head/neck but not within 1in of orbits
Unconscious casualty without airway cinpronise
Recovery position
NPA
Chin lift /jaw thrust
Uncinacious with airway compromise
Cri-key
Igel
When don’t you need c-spine
If only penetrating injury
Why is airway first in TCCC
No one cares if you have great c-spine if you don’t have a secured airway
What type of airway is IGel
Extraglotric
Progression of untreated tension pneumo
Resp distress
Obstructive shock
Traumatic cardiac arrest
Needle D both sides
If significant traumatic cardiac arrear (no pulse, resp, response to pain, other signs of life)
Intervention for traumatic cardiac arrest
Double dart
When do you move from “A”to “C”
Fail A twice