What is Stop the Bleed?
Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and call-to-action. Like CPR training, Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives.
Training Objectives:
- Recognize life-threatening bleeding.
- Understand basic physiology and anatomy of trauma with excessive blood loss.
- Understand the immediate response to locate and control bleeding.
- Understand and practice appropriate ways to stop/slow the bleeding.
- Understand and be able to apply several bleeding control tools and methods, to include direct pressure, tourniquets, and wound packing.
