How do TCCC Training Manikins Help Medical Services? | Tactical Combat Casualty Care
Simulation training manikins have long helped improve the state of our healthcare and patient satisfaction. TCCC training manikins help train medical students and aspirants for providing immediate medical care for life-threatening injuries on the battlefield.
What is TCCC?
TCCC is Tactical Combat Casualty Care. These are guidelines that need to be followed so that combatants can get immediate medical attention for life-threatening injuries on the battlefield. All medical and non-medical combatants receive the training for this so that they can effectively and timely manage combat trauma and blast-related injuries. This involves training for three scenarios/phases of casualty:
- Care under fire- Life-threatening external and extremity hemorrhages need to be controlled immediately in the first phase with limb tourniquets.
- Tactical field care- This is the second phase. During this, massive hemorrhages need to be controlled, breathing and circulation need to be monitored, burns need to be monitored and treated, and the airway needs to be managed.
- Tactical evacuation care- In this third phase, any chest or abdominal trauma need to be monitored for signs of tension pneumothorax, and bleeding needs to be controlled.
Delivering TCCC Training with Medical Simulation
Earlier, the hemorrhage when a wounded man’s main artery is divided would be so quick and so much that he would die before help could reach him. We have come a long way with tactical combat casualty care since. With the help of simulation, we have seen massive improvement in the quality of training for first responder skills in military settings. Simulation can create realistic scenarios and provide first-hand learning in a safe environment, building essential decision-making and tactical skills. With combat trauma manikins and trainers/simulators mimicking high-stress situations in the battlefield, combatants can develop the skills to ultimately reduce the number of deaths.
How does that happen? Well, when the manikins and trainers simulate realistic high-stress scenarios in the battlefield, both the medical and non-medical combatants get a chance to learn and practice how to effectively care for the injured soldiers and control any hemorrhages in the battlefield itself- at the point of injury, before they can be moved to a treatment facility. These are life-saving decisions that the combatants must make.
Tactical Casualty Care Simulators (TCCS) and Tactical Hemorrhage Control Trainers (THCT)
These simulators and trainers a boon in realistically teaching life-saving techniques and strategies for delivering effective trauma care in the battlefield. This is useful to many industries like the military, government forces, medical resuce, and private security. These simulators and trainers recreate the wounds that are commonly the result of war. The result is that combatants improve their reaction times and decision making skills, and go into the battlefield more prepared. The ultimate goal is the reduction of the number of preventable deaths.
Here at SEM Trainers, we provide the most realistic, reactive TCCC training manikins, simulators, and trainers so that training can be as realistic as possible:
In the battlefield, death most commonly happens because of bleeding, tension pneumothorax, or an airway obstruction. This full-body manikin is carefully designed to deliver realistic training on these three procedures:
Massive Bleeding
Tension Pneumothorax
Airway Obstruction
This manikin has articulated joints and contains 3 to 4 liters of blood.
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This simulator is a CPR module that gives detailed real-time visual feedback on the quality of CPR being delivered by the trainees. The dashboard shows the rate, depth, and release of each compression in real-time, and it’s also easy to generate reports and convert them into PDFs for mailing and printing.
You can wear this on the wrist, put it on the manikin, or put it inside the manikin.
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Simulating a realistic adult male arm, this trainer and its traumatic wound on the upper part of the arm realistically bleeds and helps with the practice of hemorrhage control. The wound packing and tourniquet application makes for a hands-on training, and makes the trainer suitable for TCCC and Civilian Casualty Care training. It has deep lacerations or stab wounds, large caliber gunshot wounds, and junctional wounds in the shoulder area.
You can wear this or use this as a standalone simulator.
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A simulated patient monitor designed to run different scenarios anywhere- whether it’s an ambulance or a helicopter. It mimics real defibrillators, monitors, and ventilators.
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A full body TCCS for realistically training on abdominal wounds with evisceration and a traumatic amputation above the right wrist.
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A full body TCCS for combat trauma care training of gunshot wounds, hemorrhages, and airway management.
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A full body TCCS for training on major vascular injuries usually seen in the warzone.
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A full body TCCS for training in combat trauma care for traumatic amputation injuries above the left elbow, above the left knee, and at the upper right thigh.
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A full body TCCS for training on combat trauma care for multiple traumatic gunshot wounds and amputation injuries.
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A full-sized simulator for training rapid assessment and treatment of trauma injuries in disaster drill and active shooter simulation scenarios.
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