The Senator John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center is a Pennsylvania Department of Health Accredited Certification Training Institute
The Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course trains first responders to provide medical care in civilian tactical environments, like active shooter or mass casualty incidents. Based on military lessons, it focuses on immediate life-saving skills in high-threat situations, including hemorrhage control, airway management, and patient evacuation. The curriculum covers three phases of care: direct threat care, indirect threat care, and evacuation threat care.
Target audience: EMS practitioners, firefighters, and other first responders working in civilian tactical situations.
Curriculum focus:
The course is structured around three phases of care:
• Hot Zone/Direct Threat: Rendering care while under direct attack or in adverse conditions
• Warm Zone/Indirect Threat: Providing care after the immediate threat is suppressed but may resurface
• Cold Zone/Evacuation: Caring for the casualty while they are being moved to a safer location
Topics:
• Hemorrhage control including immediate action drills for tourniquet application throughout the course
• Complete coverage of the MARCH assessment
• Surgical airway control and chest needle decompression
• Strategies for treating wounded responders in threatening environments
• Caring for pediatric patients
• Techniques for dragging and carrying victims to safety
• A final mass-casualty/active shooter event simulation
Completion:
• NAEMT requires a grade of 76% or above to be considered for successful course completion
Course benefits:
• Offers hands-on training and realistic scenarios, including simulated active shooter events in chaotic environments.
• Culminates with scenario-based exercises to practice skills in a realistic simulation.
NAEMT's TECC course is endorsed by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, is consistent with the current guidelines established by the Committee on TECC (Co-TECC), and meets all of the updated National Tactical Emergency Medical Support Competency Domains. This course is accredited by CAPCE for 16 hours of continuing education credit, and recognized by NREMT.
Online course registration and payments are limited to one per person.
