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Know What’s in Your Stop the Bleed Kit Before You Need It
May 20 is National Stop the Bleed Day. Due to the rising number of mass shootings in the United States and countries around the world, public safety attention has been focused on providing the tools to help common citizens stop a life-threatening bleed before emergency services arrive. Millions of Stop the Bleed kits are being distributed and placed in the hands of people who rarely get first aid training, emergency medical training, or understand how to recognize and stop massive arterial bleeding that can cause death in 3–4 minutes.
While all of us in professional medicine and emergency response believe hands-on training is always the best way to learn, Rescue Essentials, H&H Medical Corp., and TrueClot by Luna have teamed up with First Care Provider, a national citizen training organization, to create a 16-minute video to go through your Stop the Bleed Kit and begin to understand what's in it and how to use it in an emergency.
The video is a free public safety information tool that anyone can download to show their students, colleagues, friends, and family. Emergency services, fire departments, medical professionals, and first aid instructors can download the video and use it as part of their hands-on training in their communities. Don't wait until it's the moment of crisis to learn what's in your kit and how to use it.
Please share this article far and wide and encourage your contacts to use this video throughout the year.
