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Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Armed Forces Medical Examiners System
(USUHS) (AFMES)
USUHS faculty served with thought leaders in battlefield The AFMES has worked with the USAISR and CoTCCC
trauma care since 1993, helping to inspire the original since 2004 with the work on the first preventable death
TCCC concept. USUHS has produced more TCCC- study. The AFMES has helped identify preventable
fluent physicians than any other medical school in the deaths among combat casualties, which is the most im-
world. The school is a national leader in transitioning portant metric in improving the effectiveness of battle-
the TCCC-inspired “Stop the Bleed” program to the cit- field trauma care. Their “Feedback to the Field” series
izens of America and many other nations. of presentations, which identified specific opportunities
to improve based on autopsy findings, has been key to
many CoTCCC recommendations in the TCCC guide-
lines. AFMES has truly lived up to their reputation in
TCCC circles of “Making Good from the Bad.”

National Association of Emergency Medical
Technicians (NAEMT)
The NAEMT was CoTCCC’s first and most important
partner. With 72,000 members, NAEMT is a world-
wide leader in prehospital trauma care and has been fa- US Army Institute of Surgical Research
cilitating TCCC courses globally since 2009. NAEMT (USAISR)
also publishes the Prehospital Trauma Life Support The USAISR has been one of the primary stakeholders
(PHTLS) textbook, which has included TCCC material in the improvement of the science of battlefield trauma
since 1998. Staying up to date, the PHTLS, Military 9th care. It has been the site for research and testing of TC-
Edition will maintain as one of the best references for CC’s most important lifesaving interventions, including
TCCC material available in text. tourniquets, hemostatics, whole blood, and chest seals.
Along with the Burn Center and Burn Flight Team, they
have played a key role in the changes to TCCC guide-
lines for many years. They truly live up to ADM William
McRaven’s quote of the USAISR being “the finest bat-
tlefield trauma care research laboratory in the world.”

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