Check the information out below — and, maybe you might want to incorporate it somehow into your public education efforts. See one testimonial from one Disaster Zone Reader, at the end of this posting.
As National Stop the Bleed Day approaches, I wanted to be sure you were aware of the free, mobile application created by citizenAID North America (citizenAID), currently available on the App Store and Google Play. Both aim to prepare and empower the public to assist in emergencies before medical professionals arrive.
According to Stop the Bleed, 20 percent of trauma injury related deaths could have been prevented had the public been equipped with rapid-response knowledge to control the bleeding. Stop the Bleed encourages the public to become trained, equipped and empowered to effectively react in emergencies, and citizenAID’s app does just that.
citizenAID’s mission is simple: to save lives in times of crisis.
With step-by-step guides on how to react in any act of violence or natural disaster, the user has information at their fingertips, even when cellular service is unavailable. From learning how to tie a tourniquet to handing over the injured to paramedics when they arrive, the user is prepared for anything with citizenAID in hand — and the victim’s chance of survival is higher.
Hi Eric,
Saw the post on National Stop the Bleed Day, and wanted to mention that the Zone 3 CERT folks www.zone3cert.net arranged Stop the Bleed classes that were conducted at four south King County locations during March. I attended one of the two offered at the South King County Fire Consortium office in Kent on March 19. (Federal Way and Enumclaw locations also had classes.) My class was taught by a King County Medic One paramedic, who also did two deployments while he was a medic in the Army.
I was trained as a Boy Scout, a Marine, and an Army 91B medical specialist (while in the National Guard) in 1978, and as an EMT in 1979. I try to keep up with general first aid refreshers, but was surprised to learn that everything I previously knew about tourniquets and open wounds was no longer being taught. Battlefield experience in the early 2000's led to a complete shift in training by 2005. The old school field dressing we carried on our web gear in the military was described as "useless" by our instructor.
The class was well worth the time. I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in emergency first aid.
Regards,
Don Villeneuve
