Emergency Service Providers are skilled in administering life-saving interventions in the case of an accident or mass casualty event. This course serves two important needs:

First, it focuses on the skills Emergency Service Providers need to refine their advanced bleeding control techniques in a variety of emergent situations. 

Secondly, it will help Emergency Service Providers understand the basic skills a community member may apply prior to their arrival and explores methods to smooth the transition of care from an assisting community member to trained emergency response professionals.

• Describe the best techniques for the management of hemorrhaging wounds
• Understand wound compression and packing using hemostatic agents
• Compare correct application of elastic bands, both for wound compression and as a tourniquet
• Review correct application and when to use a windlass tourniquet
• Summarize how community members and emergency service providers should work together to treat bleeding victims
• Identify steps to maintain personal safety for the public and responders