Stop the Bleed

Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and call-to-action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives.

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National Stop the Bleed Information

    • 2024 National Stop the Bleed Day – May 23rd

 

Stop the Bleed Champions for School Nurses

    • Use this map to find a STB Champion to help you coordinate school trainings in your area of the state.

    • Stop the Bleed Instructor Resources:

          • Request a training or find resources for your classes.
          • Click the link or scan the QR code.

https://linktr.ee/mtcinjuryprevention.

 

Get Trained in Stop the Bleed Basics

 

Why do we need Stop the Bleed?

    • Watch this video produced by the Uniformed Services University of the National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health: https://youtu.be/dkb-Ddb8QFA
    • Please note that watching this video does not take the place of completing STB training.

 

Eligible high school students can apply for scholarships during the application period.

 

Michigan Can Stop the Bleed (Tri-fold Brochure)

 

The Hartford Consensus III

    • STOP THE BLEED® traces its origins to the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, CT, on December 2012. A few months after the event, a concerned local trauma surgeon and Regent of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr., MD, FACS, requested to review victims’ autopsy records, which showed that the victims had died from severe injuries and hemorrhage.
    • This knowledge led trauma surgeons from the ACS joining with other experts in the fields of emergency medical care, government, and law enforcement to discuss the matter. The group met several times and developed expert recommendations on how to improve the rate of survival for people with severe bleeding. Because two of these early meetings were held in Hartford, their recommendations became known as the Hartford Consensus.

 

Stop the Bleed, COVID-19, and You

 

Rotary Saves Lives with Stop the Bleed

    • A local Rotary Club in Pennsylvania applied for a district grant which allowed its members to get a $2,500 match and purchase 300 tourniquets for a local township police station. Those police officers were educated by the local trauma center on their use, and it was those tourniquets that saved the life of the boy in the bicycling accident. See full story at link above.

 

 

Injury Prevention: Stop-the-Bleed sub-committee Chair:  Anita Barksdale, BSN, RN, CPST – Injury Prevention, Community Education, and Outreach Coordinator, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pontiac, EMAIL Anita