The EMS WEEK theme for today is "Save a Life" and it's also "National Stop the Bleed Day."
Earlier this month Paramedic Ben McEntire was off-duty on his way to work when he came upon a motor vehicle accident that had just occurred. He realized that there was one patient with severe injuries requiring immediate intervention. Paramedic McEntire always keeps a tourniquet nearby and he immediately applied it to the patient to stop severe bleeding and requested an ambulance for transport.
The patient was transported to a regional trauma center, where a trauma surgeon commented that the patient would not have survived without the immediate application of the tourniquet. The quick actions of Paramedic McEntire ensured that this patient survived this accident.
Bleeding control is one of the critical life-saving measures anyone can perform to save a life before on-duty paramedics arrive.
For information on free life-saving training, visit StoptheBleed.org
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