Stop the Bleed Classes

[Wildcat Diva]

Very excited to be taking a “Stop the Bleed” first aid trauma class tonight. Waited a year for another class near me to come up.

www.dhs.gov/stopthebleed

I’m pulling homeschool administrator rank and making everyone in my family go. I’m hearing groans but they have to do it. I said so.

It’s a three hour class in the evening tonight.

ETA: forgot to mention it’s FREE training.

 

[Frank59]

I thought I was tough until I took and advanced first aid class and they showed a live video of a women giving birth on a park bench. I woke up 15 minutes later with a big knot on my head.

 

[Sublime]

High and tight. Practice solo care with your CAT tourniqet.
Direct pressure if not an artery or vein bleed. Duct tape can work in a pinch for sucking chest wounds. You never know...... one of our company guys got our safety award for responding to a MVA off side of the road in Oregon. Saved the girls life because he carried a IFAK. Talked to the guy after the banquet and he was very down to earth and stated his dad was ex military and convinced him to carry a kit with him.

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[BRD@66]

I've taken a trauma course & I carry a CAT. But my master plan, in the event I am on the scene, is for some fully qualified EMT to turn to the crowd & ask "Has anyone got another tourniquet?" At that moment, I step forward & hand it to him/her.

 

[baboon]

While I was a meat cutter it use to crack me up some of the bigger guys who hit the floor at the slightest sight of blood!

 

[pronstar]

I need to take this class.
Been a loooong time since my pre-med days.

Hell, even the CPR class I took recently was a bit different than what we were taught 25 years ago.


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[Kar98]

I need to take this class.
Been a loooong time since my pre-med days.

Hell, even the CPR class I took recently was a bit different than what we were taught 25 years ago.

Same. I bet if I had to render first aid to somebody these days they'd look at me like I was applying pre Civil War techniques.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Thanks for the post. Didn't know these classes existed.

 

[Vaquero]

Did 1st aid and CPR refresher/training last week.
It's a little different now. Not too much though.

 

[Wildcat Diva]

All my crew went and the class presenter was very knowledgeable and made the training engaging and interesting. It was really good.

 

[Wildcat Diva]

My boys said it was a little more basic than they thought it would be.
That was fine.
I liked it because it was all the General stuff you probably already know from first aid but then some specific details built on top of that, and new research about how we do things now that we know better what does and doesn’t work. The trainer had his own personal preferences and trade tips that he shared in an interesting way. For example, if you are using rolled gauze to pack a wound and you start to use a second roll, tie the two loose ends together real quick so the medical staff can take it out all at once and not have any of it get lost in the patient.

Also when you are putting a CAT on and they say it hurts, you say, I’m so sorry I know it does, and probably give the bar another crank. It’s going to hurt.

I also asked if any of the info we learned really varied like in CPR does from adults to children/ babies and I got told that that was a good question and that no, this info is all good and no special considerations for kids with this topic.

Was really good to hear not to worry too much over what was used to stop a bleed, like use anything halfway clean, you don’t have to worry over being sterile or anything.
Improvise, use what you have.

 

[tsugsr]

I’ve taken this class and think it’s a good, basic level trauma course to take.


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[Wildcat Diva]

I learned that if you see a wound that’s gushing blood, pack if you can pack it. Use to they just taught to put pressure over the top. That didn’t work out so great. Pressure is fine and needed to stop most bleeds, but if you see something packable, pack it.

That’s what they teach now these days.

 

[zincwarrior]

Very excited to be taking a “Stop the Bleed” first aid trauma class tonight. Waited a year for another class near me to come up.

www.dhs.gov/stopthebleed

I’m pulling homeschool administrator rank and making everyone in my family go. I’m hearing groans but they have to do it. I said so.

It’s a three hour class in the evening tonight.

ETA: forgot to mention it’s FREE training.

I took one yesterday at work. Very good. I recommend it.

 

[deemus]

I learned that if you see a wound that’s gushing blood, pack if you can pack it. Use to they just taught to put pressure over the top. That didn’t work out so great. Pressure is fine and needed to stop most bleeds, but if you see something packable, pack it.

That’s what they teach now these days.

what do you mean by "pack it"?

 

[Double Naught Spy]

what do you mean by "pack it"?

Stuffing the wound with gauze or some such material to staunch the flow of blood that is allowed because of the separation of tissue.

https://www.jems.com/articles/print...cking-essentials-for-emts-and-paramedics.html

 

[Byrd666]

I took this course: https://www.naemt.org/education/naemt-tccc from these folks: https://www.enforcereducation.com/law-enforcement back at the end of March. I Highly, highly, highly recommend taking this course. Particularly if you are any type of Commissioned or Licensed First Responder. I also highly recommend this course, or its close sister class, TECC, for pretty much any one that carries daily as well.

When I took the course, I was the only non First Responder in the room, so not only did I get to learn the course itself, I got to learn about some of the more practical applications of who, what, when, where, etc. of what was being taught by folks that can/do actually use what was being taught on almost a daily basis.

Overall, I'll say it's some of, if not, the best, money I've ever spent.

 

[deemus]

My SIL is a paramedic / FF. Had some interesting conversations with him.

 

[Kar98]

My SIL is a paramedic / FF. Had some interesting conversations with him.

Like, about the percentage of people getting resuscitated thru CPR and live?

 

[Dad_Roman]

Like, about the percentage of people getting resuscitated thru CPR and live?

1 in 20 years with probably 100 attempts.

That "one" was literally right across the street from the FD and we just happen to be standing there when the tones went out so I was able to start CPR within a minute or two of his event.

Did save a child one Christmas with smoke inhalation. Took 3 of us to do it.

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