Stop the Bleed: Lessons from Las Vegas

Posted by Rescue Essentials on 24 2017

Stop the Bleed: Lessons from Las Vegas

The recent mass casualty event in Las Vegas has implications for regular citizens.

Many stories have emerged from Las Vegas of bystanders taking courageous and life saving action to help those around them. People instinctively acted as first responders, applying makeshift tourniquets and improvised bandages at the scene and quickly moving the wounded into vehicles for transport to hospitals. Those actions saved an estimated 20 to 30 lives. Those bystanders in Las Vegas understood ...
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