Background

Pre-Hospital or Pre-Medical Treatment Facility (pre-MTF) documentation of medical interventions by first responders at the POI is critical to ensuring continuity of care and providing meaningful analyses of medical interventions, techniques, tactics, and procedures rendered at the POI.

In a deployed, combat, or training setting, all personnel have the potential to be casualties, and all personnel have the potential to be first responders. First responder care capability is also known as tactical combat casualty care. Tactical combat casualty care [or TCCC] occurs during a combat mission and is the military counterpart to prehospital trauma life support. Prehospital trauma care in the military is most commonly provided by enlisted personnel and includes self-aid and buddy aid and combat lifesavers. TCCC focuses on the most likely threats, injuries, and conditions encountered in combat and on a strictly limited range of interventions directed at the most serious of these threats and conditions.

DD Form 1380 promotes DoD goals of capturing documentation of pre-MTF medical interventions at the POI using a MIST format (Mechanisms of injury; Injuries; Signs & Symptoms; and Treatments). It is designed for use by all first responders, including non-medical personnel.