Stop the Bleed Program

I drove down to the Sycamore Township Fire House in Cincinnati on Nov. 19 to (re)learn basic techniques of bleeding control in case of a life-threatening emergency. 

Statistics show that 35 percent of victims die due to severe bleeding before they get to a hospital in an emergency situation. Because bystanders will always be the first on the scene the key is using a tourniquet within minutes of when it's needed to control a massive bleed.

The instructor was Dr. Jay Johannigman, director of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery at University Hospital in Cincinnati. He is a colonel in the USAF Reserve and also a USAF flight surgeon. His current assignment is serving in an advisory role to the Uniformed Services Health Sciences University in Washington DC. Johannigman has been deployed on six separate tours to southern Iraq and Afghanistan. He has active research interests in pulmonary failure, critical care monitoring and controlled loop ventilation.

I bought two STB kits that contain a tourniquet, a Kerlix Bandage Roll, a packet of MooreBrand sterile gauze, gloves, marking pen and written instructions.  

The goal of the nationwide STB Campaign is to prevent deaths from bleeding by teaching the community basic bleeding control.

 https://www.bleedingcontrol.org