Law Enforcement and First Response Tactical Casualty Care (LEFR-TCC)
Law Enforcement and First Response Tactical Casualty Care (LEFR-TCC): An 8-hour classroom and scenario-based skills course for law enforment. This course teaches public safety responders the basic medical care interventions that will help save an injured responder's life until EMS practitioners can safely enter a tactical scene. 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. The course 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. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive NAEMT certification in LEFR-TCC, a wallet card recognizing them as LEFR-TCC providers for 4 years, and 8 hours of CAPCE credit. This course includes a practical skills and written examination students must pass to receive NAEMT Certification.