Equip Your Facility To Help "Stop The Bleed"
Here’s how employee training, strategically-placed equipment, and awareness of the potential problem all converge to help companies reduce the number of life-threatening bleeding events on their premises.
It was a few months after the 2012 active shooter incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., when several government and medical community representatives sat down to create a national policy to enhance survivability from active shooter and intentional mass casualty events.
Known as the “Hartford Consensus", this initiative spurred both public and private organizations to begin “pre-placing” hemorrhage control equipment for use by the general public, bystanders and first responders. "With the recent incidents at the Navy Yard (Washington, DC) and Westgate Mall (Nairobi, Kenya), this topic is very much top of mind,” Hartford Hospital’s Lenworth M. Jacobs, MD, MPH, FACS, said in a press release at the time.
The goal of this nationwide initiative is to “train every American in basic bleeding control techniques and to work tirelessly toward placing bleeding control kits in every public venue, including schools, community centers, places of worship, and stadiums.” To help stop the bleed in the workplace, companies should stock up on one-time use tourniquets, rescuer trauma kits, and multi-casualty bleeding control packs. They can also situate first aid cabinets near their AEDs.
“In one case, emergency responders were delayed 40 minutes because law enforcement didn’t want to put them in danger,” Jacobs continued. “Most of these shooting events are over in 15 minutes and people can bleed to death within five minutes from these severe injuries. Responses to save victims have to be immediate, fully orchestrated, and ready to go, day or night, in any city in the U.S.”
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