The “Stop the Bleed” campaign was organized by the Copeland Regional Trauma Council — named for the late Charles E. Copeland, MD, a surgeon at UPMC and founder of the hospital’s Mercy Burn Center. The CRTC includes UPMC’s five trauma centers, as well as seven other trauma centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
In the two-hour training program, UPMC and CRTC trauma physicians, nurses and Emergency Medical Service personnel will teach basic hemorrhage control techniques that can greatly improve chance of survival.
UPMC will also provide bleeding kits — which contain blood clotting gel, gauze and tourniquets — to keep in public areas and businesses in the community.
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