STOP THE BLEED® and Save a Life
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The goal of the STOP THE BLEED® campaign is to better prepare the public to save lives by raising awareness of basic actions that can stop life threatening bleeding following everyday emergencies and man-made and natural disasters. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Allison Jones about this campaign and learn how we can all be more prepared. Allison is an Assistant Professor in the UAB School of Nursing. She has been a certified Stop the Bleed instructor since 2017 and has an active program of research in this area.
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- Welcome to Clinical Pearls. I am Tracy White. I'm here with my co-host, Vijay Hamakuli. Vijay, it's great to see you. - Good to see you too. - So I was wondering if you've ever been out in the community and had to perform CPR? - Fortunately not. - So that did happen to me one time at the airport. - At the airport? - Yes. And I was, I was a nurse at that time, but a very young nurse, so starting out and at the airport, someone fell on the floor and everyone looked at each other and I was it and the only person that initially went. So I was doing CPR and luckily I had the training and a doctor came up and asked me if I wanted help and of course I said yes, so we did CPR together until the ambulance came. And the person, you know, we got him to the hospital. I'm not sure what happened after that 'cause I had to go get on my flight after that, but it was quite a harrowing experience. So I'm excited to talk today with our guest about a stop the bleed campaign, which is another thing that people in the community, healthcare workers and non-health care workers can use these techniques to hopefully save life that should ever happen to them. - Yeah, so I'm actually very excited to hear about stop the bleed campaign. I think it's something that is very much needed in addition to CPR. So we hope our audience can join us and hopefully learn something new about stop the bleed. - And remember everyone, please like, share, leave a review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. (upbeat music) The Stop the Bleed campaign was initiated by a federal work group convened by the National Security Council staff at the White House. The purpose of the campaign is to build national resilience by better preparing the public to save lives by raising awareness of basic actions to stop life threatening bleeding, following everyday emergencies and man-made or natural disasters. Advance is made by military medicine
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