Daemen’s Center for Interprofessional Learning & Simulation (CILS) held its first Stop the Bleed training course in the CILS Center on November 9.
Tony Surace and Mark Weidmann pictured with some of the course attendees
The course, which is U.S. Department of Defense-approved, was led by instructor Mark Weidmann, a member of the Stop the Bleed Coalition.
Attendees, including a Daemen student, a lay rescuer, and healthcare professionals in athletic training and physician assistant roles, were required to watch a 17-minute video after registering for the course. The in-person portion of the training took 90 minutes.
The Stop the Bleed program taught participants how to respond to a traumatic bleeding injury. “A person’s average bleed-out time is three to five minutes,” said Tony Surace, Executive Director, Center for Interprofessional Learning & Simulation, at Daemen. “Being able to take emotion out of the response to react within minutes with a stop the leak approach of ‘applying pressure, pack it, turn it, and seal it’ is crucial to survival and can be the difference between life and death.”
The CILS plans to offer another Stop the Bleed course in the spring, which will be open to anyone. Additional information can be found on the CILS website.
“Our goal is to continue to raise awareness for this life-saving course,” added Surace. “There is a critical need to train community members and healthcare professionals in this essential skill, especially in response to major accidents and unfortunate incidents. By stopping the bleed within three minutes, anyone can save a life.”