Free Stop the Bleed Training

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thegrouch314 said: ↑
Aren’t the NAR audio bleeding control kits designed to work along the same principle as an AED so it talks you through step by step how to use everything? https://www.narescue.com/audio-bleeding-control-kits

It seems like a good idea IMO. Applying a TQ isn’t too difficult and if people are being talked through it, they’d be more willing to try.

I’d like to see these mounted next to AEDs on every street corner ideally. They’re also about a third of the price of an AED
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I agree completely with this post!! My 6 year old can correctly apply a TQ. The flow chart that comes with pictures is provided with stop the bleed kits.

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TakeDeadAim said: ↑
Who sold or gave you a CAT without training? People have to realize just having a piece of equipment does NOT make you safer or help you save lives, training does. Way before there were commercial tourniquets trained professional were saving lives with them. You can have all the public access AED’s you want but time and time again the research shows what saves lives is high quality CPR from a trained provider. Get involved and get trained, get your family, friends and co-workers trained.
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Well, I have training (retired Nationally Registered EMT, current Red Cross AED/CPR/First Aid training, CERT training, the Stop the Bleed training, SALT Mass Casualty Triage Training, Core Disaster Life Support, and Intro to Tactical Emergency Casualty Care).

That said, tourniquets aren’t medically restricted devices and haven’t been in my professional lifetime, so they are in essence an “over the counter” purchase item. I purchased my tourniquets (I have tourniquets in my car first aid kit, my EDC bag, my home first aid kit, and my bug out bags) from Rescue Essentials, NAR, and Skinny Medic, depending on who was having a sale at the time.

You are right that training is important, and with regard to trauma that is one of the objectives of the Stop the Bleed campaign whose training I mentioned at the start of this thread. Like CPR training started around cardiac care, the STB training is focused on providing widespread civilian training on handling trauma and hemorrage. It (like CPR training that focuses on hands-only CPR training), recognizes that civilian “first care providers” can learn lifesaving skills in a relatively short training program. Quick bleeding control is critical to survival in a similar way that early CPR and early cardioversion is critical to survial after cardiac arrest.

Stop the Bleed Kits are now appearing beside AED cabinets in many public and private places so that lifesaving equipment is available for the civilian first care provider until EMS professionals arrive. Hopefully there will be a trained civilian first care provider on scene. If not, though, both AEDs and STB kits have short simple directions that can help even untrained persons take action until professional care arrives. Not optimal, but better than standing by and watching someone bleed out.

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NAR Bleeding Control multi-pack at my son’s university

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ArkansasFan30 said: ↑
You think in ten years we’ll find tourniquets mounted like AEDs?
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DTWCA said: ↑
NAR Bleeding Control multi-pack at my son’s university

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That’s awesome.

I’m gonna contact my uni and see if they’ll mount a couple of these around. They’re a great idea

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I asked the University PD about the Stop the Bleed wall units and they said they’ll also be offering Stop the Bleed classes to students.

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Thanks for this link. I signed up locally for myself and my two sons for a class in a couple of weeks. I may take my son’s scout troop as well. The scariest first aid situations I have been in have required either CPR or bleeding control in a remote location.

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Guerilla said: ↑
Thanks for this link. I signed up locally for myself and my two sons for a class in a couple of weeks. I may take my son’s scout troop as well. The scariest first aid situations I have been in have required either CPR or bleeding control in a remote location.
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I hope you like the training! I think the Boy Scouts would like it, too.

My wife is a teacher and all the school staff just went through the Stop the Bleed training this week and some parents donated bleeding control kits to the schools.

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I’ve been looking for this training in the Nashville area but I can never find it. I think it’s an awesome idea.

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MCPOWoller said: ↑
I’ve been looking for this training in the Nashville area but I can never find it. I think it’s an awesome idea.
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Vanderbilt Medical Center offers it. Check with them: http://news.vumc.org/2018/03/22/vumc-offering-public-courses-on-how-to-control-bleeding/ Hope you can get to one of the courses!

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Thanks to this thread, my son and I took this class tonight. It was very well done and they covered everything you really need to know in an hour. I have taken several different first aid courses, but tourniquets have always been taboo. That is no longer the case. My son was able to quickly apply a tourniquet to my arm and stop my pulse. He will be getting a CAT tourniquet for his school backpack.

The nurse/instructor is going to come to us and teach our entire scout troop.

Thanks for the tip. I highly recommend this class!

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Training tourniquet’s should not be applied tight enough to stop a palpated pulse. It is not necessary to apply the device that tight to teach or verify competency with the device.

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