Features
- 7.5 hours of online material
Tactical Casualty Care Online
This engaging 7.5 -hour CAPCE accredited course uses TECC/TCCC guidelines to prepare for the first few minutes of casualty evaluation in a high-risk environment. This course will give you a plan to identify and manage immediately life-threatening injuries. You’ll gain the knowledge and skills to implement the plan, while you are still engaged in an ongoing tactical problem.
Online, self-paced.
Care Under Fire – Direct Threat
The course largely deals with the Care Under Fire – Direct Threat phase of an event. In this phase, any medical care is provided while the responder and casualty are in an ongoing situation that is a direct threat to life. (Examples include active shooter or active violent incident, building collapse, fire, secondary explosives, etc). This phase requires efficient hemorrhage control, largely with tourniquets, and patient movement.
While most injuries are not immediately life-threatening, some injuries cause death before the arrival of EMS if not managed rapidly and correctly. Security concerns usually delay EMS in these types of events. Instead, responding law enforcement and nearby private citizens provide most life-saving care in this phase.
The course uses photographs of actual injuries, diagrams of wounds, and step-by-step demonstrations. The material is presented in an easy-to-understand, directly applicable way. The first time you see massive hemorrhage shouldn’t be when you’re being called on to give life-saving medical care. After taking these courses you will have a strong background to identify immediately life-threatening injuries and save lives.
This course is consistent with the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines for all combatants, as well as the guidelines for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) for Active Bystanders and Responders with a Duty to Act. The course also exceeds the Stop the Bleed curriculum.
Tactical Casualty Care Subjects Covered:
The nature and myths of gunshot wounds and realities of their medical management
How to rapidly evaluate casualties in a high-risk environment and how they affect your tactical treatment plan
The concept of “care under fire” and how it differs from a non-tactical medical situation
Assessment and management of penetrating, blunt, and blast injuries
Assessment and management of massive hemorrhage
The safe and efficient use of improvised and commercially available tourniquets
Basic airway and breathing assessment, as well as management within a high-risk environment
Clarifying the “sucking chest wound” and it’s actual significance
Techniques for moving casualties to a safer location
This course is about 80% dynamic presentation including photos, videos, and real-life examples and 20% practical skills demonstration, and filmed scenarios
No prior medical knowledge or training is necessary to attend. If you carry a firearm this is the minimum level of tactical medical training you should have. However, it would benefit every citizen.
Students receive a certificate at the course conclusion indicating they have taken a course based on the TECC/TCCC guidelines. Students who provide State or National registry information will be provided a CAPCE compliant certificate for CEH.
Agency pricing and Gift certificates available: Give the gift of training to those you care about. Delivered virtually and the same day or on a day you choose.
CAPCE Accredited Provider
This CE activity is accredited for 7.5 Basic CEH by Crisis Medicine, an organization accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Prehospital Continuing Education.
- Lectures 33
- Quizzes 2
- Duration 7.5 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Students 800
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Yes
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Ed Hubbell
Ed Hubbell
Excellent course, well presented. It can be difficult to put on an engaging course that offers high learning retention remotely. I feel it has been well achieved here. You won't be wasting your money to take this online course, although hands on training should come as soon as practicable. -
BRENT NOOTENBOOM
Awesome course! highly recommended
This is a comprehensive and thorough course in an easy to follow and understand format from an amazing instructor. I would love to take the in-person version of this course as a refresher someday. -
James Fincannon
Worth every penny!
This is an amazing course available online. The self-paced structure is perfect for someone that's active-duty, deployed, or working shifts. I was able to complete the course over a tour of duty between runs. The information is up-to-date and presented in a clear and concise manner. Everything is backed up with data or evidence, and if it's not, Dr. Shertz says so. Definitely one of the most insightful versions of this coursework I've had. Worth the price of admission, and then some! -
Gavin Young
Invaluable Training
I recently completed the online Tactical Casualty Care (TC2) by Dr. Shertz. I am so thankful I did because what a ton of really good information! I usually struggle with online medical stuff but this was fantastic! I would recommend this course to everyone, even if you aren't in the business of protecting and saving lives. My background: 26 1/2 years in law enforcement: 17 on the SWAT team, and 8 on the Narcotics Task Force; and 2 1/2 years Executive Protection as well as an Emergency Response Team Agent. I've been privileged to receive a great deal of training in my time and this training was hands down the best. Well worth every penny! Thank you Dr. Shertz, all your staff, and your family for putting this together. -
Jason Hanson
LPN
Absolutely impressed by the amount of high-quality information in this course. I've taken similar courses, some were better than others, and this is probably the best I've taken. I was hesitant to take an online course and was genuinely impressed by the level of engagement and amount of information presented. It's been a long time since I've taken a course that compelled me to re-evaluate my beliefs and habits the way this course did. Time and money well spent!