DATE: Tuesday, 7th October 2025

TIME: 8:00am - 5:00pm 

VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) 

ROOM: Room to be confirmed closer to the conference via the Program 

REGISTRATION FEE: $340

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HOSTED BY: Committee For Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (CTECC)

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DESCRIPTION: The Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines represent a set of evidenced-based best practices for the immediate medical management of wounded in all prehospital high-risk scenarios. TECC is not tactical medicine; instead, it is intended for situations with on-going threat to the provider and patient. TECC balances the on-going threats, civilian scope of practice, population, medical equipment, and the variable response resources in civilian atypical emergencies. This course is intended to familiarize Advanced Life Support Providers, Basic Life Support providers, EMS Medical Directors and Operational Leadership with the medical and tactical guidelines, medical evidence, controversies in high threat medicine, and explore the different types and brands of medical equipment involved in the TECC guidelines.​

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• Take-home point #1: There are three phases of TECC medical care that are defined by the relationship of the provider to the threat. Each phases has a different set of medical priorities that are driven by the medical risk-benefit ratio.

• Take-home point #2: Indirect Threat Care is the phase where there is a continued realistic threat of further injury to the provider and patient but that threat is not tangible, well defined and immediate. In this phase of care, the medical priorities can be defined by the mnemonic MARCHE.

• Take-home point #3: TECC is applicable in all high threat operations where there is an ongoing risk to the provider and patient, and the tactical operations have impact and implications on medical operations. This is not limited to law enforcement related operations such as SWAT operations and Active Shooter response, but includes all high threat like medical response to explosive mass casualty, vehicle rammings, hazardous materials response, and technical rescue. ​

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This workshop will be taught directly by two of the co-founders and co-chairs of the Committee and will address current controversies and future direction and developments in TECC.