TCCC was designed in the 1990s for the Special Operations Command medical community. Originally a joint Naval Special Warfare Command and Special Operations Medical Research & Development initiative, CoTCCC developed combat-appropriate and evidence-based trauma care based on injury patterns of previous conflicts.

Why was TCCC created?

The TCCC program began as a Naval Special Warfare biomedical research effort launched after the realization that extremity hemorrhage, a leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield, was not being treated with a readily available and highly effective intervention: the tourniquet.

Who created TCCC?

TRAUMA CARE

Hundreds of people have played key roles in moving TCCC forward from publications into military medical practice over the past 2 decades. Dr. Norman McSwain was one of the first when he established the link between the nascent TCCC effort and PHTLS in 1998.