Daily News | ‘Stop the Bleed’ courses are helping Philadelphians buy valuable time
At Monday’s training, Misuro watched her arm turn blue and her veins pop out as she let everyone practice applying and tightening a tourniquet near her shoulder.
Van de Water said that two YEAH participants told her they actually ended up using what they learned in a Stop the Bleed session in real life.“Even though they didn’t have tourniquets or anything, they said they knew that they were able to grab a shirt or grab a towel and hold it down on someone’s wounds while people waited for the ambulance,” she recalled.
“It continues that conversation of supporting each other, supporting our communities,” she said. “It’s so much heavier than I think you realize on the surface.”There are four Level I trauma centers for adults in Philadelphia — Einstein, Temple, Penn, and Jefferson. The city’s fifth center, Hahnemann,The places in the city that experience the most gun violence can be far away from these trauma centers, and those extra minutes matter greatly.
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