The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gets it, the U.S. military gets it, police are starting to get it does your school get it? “IT” is the fact that simple tools and training can save lives by treating the most preventable causes of death seen in traumatic or other violent injuries. These injuries occur in severe weather emergencies, kitchen/lab accidents, severe sports injuries, car/bus accidents both in and out of school.
From the DHS website ( Stop the Bleed )
No matter how rapid the arrival of professional emergency responders, bystanders will always be first on the scene. A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within five minutes, therefore it is important to quickly stop the blood loss.
“Stop the Bleed” is a nationwide campaign to empower individuals to act quickly and save lives.
In 2014, the Buckeye Firearms Foundation started a campaign to put trauma kits in every school, just like we do with fire extinguishers and AED devices. We customized a ‘Classroom Emergency Response Kit’ containing tourniquets, compression bandages, chest seals and other supplies to treat the most common traumatic injuries.