Law Enforcement First Response –
Tactical Casualty Care (LEFR-TCC)
A trauma course designed to teach law enforcement officers how to care for themselves or their partners in an emergency.
This new course was developed in collaboration with the Denver Health Department of EMS Education and the Denver Police Department Metro/SWAT unit, and NAEMT’s Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Committee. It is geared towards public safety first responders (police, law enforcement officers, and other first responders) and teaches the basic medical care interventions that will help save an injured responder’s life until EMS practitioners can safely enter a tactical scene. More Information
LEFR-TCC teaches public safety first responders including police, other law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders the basic medical care interventions that will help save an injured responder’s life until EMS practitioners can safely enter a tactical scene. It combines the principles of PHTLS and TCCC, and meets the recommendations of the Hartford Consensus document and TECC guidelines.
Continuing Education Hours: This continuing education activity is approved by the National Association of EMTs, and offers 8.00 Continuing Education Hours (CEHs) for the initial classroom course. A renewal classroom course option is not available at this time.
CERTIFICATION
The National Association of EMTs Law Enforcement First Response TCC (LEFR-TCC) course completion card is valid for four years.
CLASSROOM |
$200.00 |
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Textbook: | $100.00 |
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The course combines the principles of PHTLS and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), with the training provided to military medics by all branches of our Armed Services. It is consistent with the Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines, and meets the recommendations of the Hartford Consensus Document on Improving Survival from Active Shooter Events.
Course participants will learn life-saving medical actions such as bleeding control with a tourniquet, bleeding control with gauze packs or topical hemostatic agents, and opening an airway to allow a casualty to breathe.
Upon completion of the course participants will: