page_title: Tactical combat casualty care
section_title: Phases of Care
hierarchical_section_title: Tactical combat casualty care / Phases of Care
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Евакуація гелікоптером на навчаннях ТССС у Camp Buehring, Кувейт, 23 лютого 2016 року. English: Tactical combat casualty care training at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Feb. 23, 2016.
context_page_description: Tactical Combat Casualty Care is the standard of care in Prehospital Battlefield Medicine. The TCCC Guidelines are routinely updated and published by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, a component of the Joint Trauma System division of the Defense Health Agency. TCCC was designed in the mid-'90s for the Special Operations medical community. Originally a Naval Special Warfare and USSOCOM Medical Research & Development initiative, TCCC developed battlefield appropriate and evidence-based casualty care based on injury patterns of previous conflicts. The original TCCC concept and guidelines were published in a Military Medicine Supplement in 1996. The primary intent of TCCC is to reduce preventable combat death through a means that allows a unit to complete its mission while providing the best possible care for casualties. Now it is a DOD course, conducted by NAEMT. TCCC or similar standards are used by most allied countries.
  The Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care was originally established by the US Special Operations Command in 2002 before shifting to the Naval Medical Education & Training Command in 2004.
context_section_description: In TCCC prehospital battlefield care is divided into 3 phases:
caption: Tactical combat casualty care training at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Feb. 23, 2016.
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