title: The Transition to the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care.
abstract: The original Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines were published in a special supplement to Military Medicine in 1996 as the terminal deliverable of a 2-year development project funded by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Two years later, the USSOCOM Biomedical Initiatives Steering Committee (BISC) promulgated its Task Statement 5-98, in which it called for the formation of a panel of subject matter experts to update the TCCC guidelines. This article discusses the formation of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) and the changes to the original guidelines that constituted the first update.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Editor, Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care. Electronic address: sdgiebner@msn.com.
authors.forename: Stephen D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Giebner
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D055813:Wilderness Medicine / Q000266:history*
keywords: Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC); Delphi consensus; Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC); battlefield trauma; combat medic; combat trauma