From Press Release
CHRISTUS EMS and The University of Texas at Tyler School of Nursing are sending dozens of paramedics, nursing students, trauma experts and other certified “Stop The Bleed” instructors to conduct training for students across Jefferson Independent School District on Thursday and Friday of this week.
This massive, 2-day event is part of an unprecedented collaboration between community health care leaders aimed atpreparing the public to save lives by raising awareness of basic actions to stop life threatening bleeding following everyday emergencies and man-made and natural disasters.
The “Stop the Bleed” campaign was initiated by a federal interagency workgroup convened by the National Security Council Staff, 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 and natural disasters. Advances made by military medicine and research in hemorrhage control during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have informed the work of this initiative which exemplifies translation of knowledge back to the homeland to the benefit of the general public.