Tactical Combat Casualty Care in Operation Iraqi Freedom
CPT Michael J. Tarpey, MC, USA
Current assignment: Battalion Surgeon 1-15 IN (PROFIS) Deployed to Middle East
Permanent Assignment: Winder Clinic, Ft. Benning MEDDAC
No duty phone, May contact at Michael.tarpey1@us.army.mil
Introduction
In the mid-1990s the U.S. Army Special Operations Command developed a new set of guidelines concerning the treatment of casualties on the battlefield. These guidelines, called Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), have been updated since their initial proposal and have been widely practiced with excellent results throughout the Special Operations community (1). However there has been very little spread of the use of the TCCC guidelines into conventional units. This article reviews the use of the principles of TCCC by......
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