Federal agencies, major healthcare and law enforcement trade associations, local governments and some companies are backing the push for broader training, uniting in support of the White House-led public safety campaign called “Stop The Bleed,” according to the article.
Here are a few specific ways entities are backing the push for broader training.
- The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians and the American College of Surgeons are among groups that provide free instructional materials online so qualified instructors can train first responders and bystanders in bleeding control, reports Kaiser Health News. Across the nation, trauma departments are offering similar programs.
- Trauma surgeons in Boston are instructing teachers at schools run by the city’s archdiocese on bleeding control, according to the article.
- Police officers in cities across the country are also learning how to apply tourniquets and arming them with bleeding-control kits, the report states.
For more on this story, including how advances are making trauma care better, see Rachel Bluth’s full report in Kaiser Health News.
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