Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC)

With roots developed in evidence-based combat medicine, TECC presents the three phases of tactical casualty care:

Hot Zone: Direct Threat Care - Patient care rendered while under attack, in adverse, or otherwise imminently dangerous conditions.
Warm Zone: Indirect Threat Care - Patient care rendered while the threat has been suppressed but may resurface at any point.
Cold Zone: Evacuation Care - Patient care rendered while the patient is being evacuated from the incident site.

TECC focuses on the medicine during these phases of care and provides guidelines for managing trauma in the civilian tactical or hazardous environment. While TECC has a tactical feel, it takes an all-hazards approach to providing prehospital emergency medical care, while responding to a mass casualty or active shooter events.

Whiteside Tactical Solutions (WTS) is fully accredited and recognized by the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC) as an educational content provider. At Whiteside Tactical Solutions, our trauma lanes includes all-new tactical casualty incident simulations. TECC at WTS includes but is not limited to:

Hemorrhage control including immediate action drills for tourniquet application, direct pressure, and wound packing
Comprehensive instruction on the “MARCH” algorithm assessment
Strategies for treating wounded responders in high threat environments
Caring for pediatric patients in the tactical environment
Proven, best practices for lifting, dragging, and carrying victims to safety
Three (3) skill-focused, Situational Trauma Exercise Lanes
Realistic active shooter/mass casualty event scenarios
Team movement with the incorporation of radio communication

Our curriculum is aligned with the current guidelines established by the Committee on TECC (Co-TECC). The Co-TECC establishes guidelines for the provision of prehospital care to injured patients during a tactical incident.

Upon successful completion of Whiteside Tactical Solutions TECC Course, students will receive a WTS certification as a TECC Provider (valid for two years from the date of course completion).

Next Course Offering

October 28, 2023

@9 am

Early Bird Registration August 21-September 18, 2023

Registration September 19-October 7, 2023

Late Registration October 8-October 20, 2023