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TCCC and PHTLS TCCC – PHTLS – NAEMT
The Beginning
In 1998, then-RADM Mike Cowan proposed that military
medicine contribute a chapter to the Prehospital
Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) textbook. PHTLS was led
then (and now) by Admiral Cowan’s friend, Dr. Norman
McSwain, the Director of Trauma at Charity Hospital in
New Orleans. The 1996 TCCC Guidelines were part of
that first military chapter included in the Fourth Edition
of the PHTLS texbook. TCCC has maintained a close
and valuable working relationship with PHTLS since
• This logo was designed, approved and 1998. Dr. McSwain was previously a voting member of
copyrighted by the CoTCCC the Committee on TCCC and is currently the PHTLS
• Notice the text at the bottom liaison to the TCCC Working Group.
The PHTLS Textbook
TCCC Guidelines:
• There is now a separate version of the The What
PHTLS textbook (the current version is TCCC Curriculum:
PHTLS 8) called PHTLS Military with 13
chapters written by TCCC and other military The How
authors. MPHTLS Text:
• The PHTLS textbook carries the endorsement The Why
of both NAEMT and the American College of
Surgeons Committee on Trauma. “Military units that have trained all of their members
in Tactical Combat Casualty Care have documented
the lowest incidence of preventable deaths among
their casualties in the history of modern warfare.”
TCCC Curriculum:
MHS and NAEMT Websites
All TCCC change
papers are now
published in the
JSOM
• Also direct mailings to DoD combat medical
schoolhouses
• Note that the TCCC section on the MHS site
is behind a CAC-card firewall
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