Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC or TC3)

Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC or TC3) are the United States military guidelines for trauma life support in prehospital combat medicine, designed to reduce preventable deaths while maintaining operation success.

The TCCC guidelines are routinely updated and published by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC), which is part of the Defense Committees on Trauma (DCoT) branch of the Joint Trauma System (JTS) within the Defense Health Agency (DHA).

TCCC focuses on threats, injuries, and conditions encountered in the pre-hospital environment with the range of interventions directed at the most serious of these conditions.

TCCC is the deliberate integration of tactics and medicine as the primary response to treat all casualties during combat missions and is the military counterpart to pre-hospital trauma life support.

The application of TCCC occurs anywhere in the pre-hospital setting and can be tailored by the Joint Trauma System to support Service-specific mission requirements.

TCCC training has four individual skillsets (all service members, combat lifesaver, combat medic/corpsmen, and combat paramedics/providers) to support the range of military operations.

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