Phase of Tactical Combat Casualty Care?

• A. Medical Triage
• B. Care Under Fire
• C. Home Care
• D. Recovery Phase

Answer: (B)

In Tactical Combat Casualty Care, the phase you’re in when the casualty is still under enemy fire is Care Under Fire. The priority in this phase is to save life right away while danger remains. That means rapid, essential actions to stop life-threatening bleeding (like applying a tourniquet or hemostatic dressings and sealing chest wounds) and getting the casualty to cover or out of danger as quickly as possible. Interventions are limited and focused because both the medic and the casualty are under threat, so you don’t have time for a full assessment or advanced treatments in this window.

Once the area is secured, care shifts to a safer phase called Tactical Field Care, where a more thorough assessment and additional treatments can be performed, followed by care during evacuation. The other options aren’t phases of the Tactical Combat Casualty Care sequence, so they don’t describe where care is provided in relation to ongoing danger.