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This 5 - day course covers the TECC Provider course content as well as prepares instructor candidates to competently deliver the content contained within the NAEMT TECC Provider Course.

TECC was formed to decrease preventable death in the tactical situation. Topics include Hemorrhage control; surgical airway control and needle decompression; strategies for treating wounded responders in dangerous environments; caring for pediatric patients; and techniques for dragging and carrying victims to safety. While many other topics are covered, the course's primary purpose is to “buy time” so that the patient may make it to the surgeon alive.

At the core of the TECC program are three distinct phases that have been well-proven by TCCC-trained personnel in the war against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan and adapted for domestic implementation.

The phases are as follows:

• Direct Threat Care: Care rendered while still under attack or in an inherently dangerous situation.
• Indirect Threat Care: Care provided while the threat is not active but may re-emerge at any point.
• Evacuation Care: Care is delivered while the casualty is being evacuated from the incident site. This is hopefully a setting where the patient is en route to a hospital or surgeon.

TECC focuses on the medicine during these phases of care and provides guidelines for managing trauma in the civilian tactical or hazardous environment. While TECC has a tactical slant, it takes an all-hazards approach to providing care outside the normal operating conditions of most EMS agencies, such as responding to a mass casualty or active shooter event. This course is not designed to teach the “tactics” of an active shooter or like event. We overview tactical expectations but do not instruct on the firearms or threat suppression component of such events.

There is a component of professional development, instructional development, and teach-back associated with this contracted program.

Tuition includes:

• NAEMT Online Instructor Course
• TECC Textbook
• TECC Instructor Toolkit
• TECC Provider certification
• TECC Instructor paperwork submission to NAEMT

Prerequisites:

• Current active military, law enforcement, fire, EMS, or public safety
• Reference Letter/Letter of Support from agency training office or administrative chief
• NAEMT Online instructor course. If the instructor candidate has not had the course or cannot provide the certification for the NAEMT online course, a code will be provided to the instructor candidate prior to the in-person portion of the course. The NAEMT online instructor course must be completed, and a copy of the completion certification must be provided before the start of the in-person portion, or the instructor candidate will not be permitted to attend.