Direct Threat Engagements Trauma Care

This course is designed to instruct law enforcement officers in direct threat engagement and shooting fundamentals as well as the basic medical care interventions that will help save an injured officer and emergency responder’s life until a higher level of care can be safely performed. The course combines the principles of PHTLS and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines. Course participants will learn life-saving medical actions that focus on saving “preventable deaths” while achieving three primary goals: stop the threat, treat the casualty, and continue the mission. Skills being taught will include bleeding control with a tourniquet, use of hemostatic agents, basic wound management, and basic casualty airway management.