Areas of Further Research
C-TECC will not offer specific product endorsements, but strongly encourages individual agency heads and medical directors to investigate which products best meet their needs using data accumulated by C-TECC.
Areas for research:
- Pediatric tourniquet use
- Prehospital TXA use
- Resuscitation guidelines for pediatrics
- Hemorrhage control in anti-coagulated patients (coumadin/plavix/etc)
- Methods of evacuation and effect on survival
- Physiologic monitoring of casualties in mass casualty
- Effect of obesity on TECC equipment and Guidelines
- Complications from needle decompression
- Wounding patterns from active shooter
- Effect of TBI management on hypotensive resuscitation
- TEMS utilization nationally
- First Responder deaths and injuries during high risk operations
- Extremes of age and needle decompression