‘Stop the Bleed’ Trainings Coming Up

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If a co-worker, patient or client suffered a serious injury and you had to help to stop serious bleeding, would you know what to do?

Depending on the location of the injury, bleeding control options vary. They include tourniquet application to arm or leg injuries. If tourniquet use is not applicable, other compression options include applying direct pressure to the site and packing the wound with gauze.

But how do you do it? 

The County Health and Human Services Agency is conducting hands-on trainings on how to properly identify and respond to life-threatening bleeding. The trainings are part of Stop the Bleed, a national awareness campaign that encourages members of the public to become trained and empowered to assist with lifesaving bleeding control techniques in emergencies involving traumatic injuries and rapid blood loss.

The goals of Stop the Bleed are:

  1. Place bleeding control kits in County facilities.

  2. Ensure County employees have access to training on the use of bleeding control kits as an added component of the County’s existing safety program.

 There are upcoming instructor-led trainings. Register on the Learning Management System.  

October 30

1:30-3 p.m.

Live Well Center at National City

401 Mile of Cars Way, Room 2086

National City, CA 91910

November 13

1:30-3 p.m.

North Inland Live Well Center

649 W. Mission Ave. Room D

Escondido CA, 92025

December 10

9-10:30 a.m. & 1-2:30 p.m.

County Operations Center

5560 Overland Ave., Room 171

San Diego CA, 92123                                                                                             

Last November, the Health and Human Services Agency implemented a pilot program for Stop the Bleed, which placed bleeding control kits and trained staff at the County Administration Center. A month later, the program was expanded to other County facilities.

To date, kits have been placed at the larger county worksites including the County Operations Center and County Health Services Complex (Rosecrans). The kits can be found with Automated External Defibrillators (AED) at each site. Eventually each one of the County’s 609 AEDs will have a bleeding control kit alongside it.

For more information please contact Ellen.Presente@sdcounty.ca.gov.