Tactical Emergency Casualty Care for Patrol Officers

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Officers will discuss and visualize the concept of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care as it applies to law enforcement tactical situations and the treatment of injured officers.  Officers will learn and demonstrate specific treatments and interventions for the most commonly encountered would patterns.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Upon completing of this period of instruction, officers will be able to:

1. Identify the concepts of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care, its use in the law enforcement environment and how this concept differs from historically taught conventional First Responder medical treatment practices.
2. Identify the most commonly sustained officer injuries and preventable causes of death.
3. Identify the importance of mindset and maintaining situational awareness when wounded and when treating fellow officers.
4. Identify signs and symptoms of airway problems and demonstrate airway interventions.
5. Identify signs and symptoms of serious bleeding and demonstrate control interventions.
6. Identify signs and symptoms of shock and demonstrate prevention and treatment interventions.
7. Perform a Casualty Evaluation/F.A.S.T. Rapid Trauma Assessment and tactical evacuation.
8. Plan and uniform a vehicle and non-vehicle officer down rescue/extraction in a high-threat environment.