STOP THE BLEED® + AASHTO

Stop The Bleed Coalition

The Stop The Bleed Coalition provided a custom webinar to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Safety Committee (AASHTO) about how STOP THE BLEED® fits into the Safe System Approach. AASHTO is a standards setting body which publishes specifications, test protocols, and guidelines that are used in highway design and construction throughout the United States. Life-threatening bleeding emergencies can often happen using many of the United States’s transportation systems, whether that’s driving on a state highway or riding on a train.

The Stop The Bleed Coalition webinar included information about the Coalition’s resources, licensing program, and an overview of what’s coming next for STOP THE BLEED®. This was conducted as a part of the larger Webinar Program that the Coalition introduced this year.

If your organization is interested in having a Stop The Bleed Coalition webinar customized to your organization’s audience, send an email [email protected].

How STOP THE BLEED® training tries to help people save lives, especially in high-crime areas

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

July 26, 2024

The Sherman Park community is undertaking an initiative to reduce crime by implementing the Cardiff model, which uses data from police, fire and hospitals to target high-crime areas. This includes bringing STOP THE BLEED® classes to community members. At the Sherman Park training, people learned to apply pressure to a wound, pack a wound to control bleeding and apply a tourniquet to wounded limbs.

While Susan Cronn, a Medical College of Wisconsin nurse practitioner, teaches STOP THE BLEED® classes to the Sherman Park community, she is also on a mission to get lifesaving Stop the Bleed kits into people's hands.

She got a $40,000 grant through MCW’s Comprehensive Injury Center to buy 500  kits, train people on their use and place them in neighborhoods with high incidences of gun violence.

Louisville 18-year-old recovers after being shot in the head, his surgeon encourages public to get STOP THE BLEED® trained

WLKY | August 2, 2024

On average, in Kentucky, more than 800 people die a year from gunshots, and that includes suicides. Dr. Amy Gonshak, a UofL Health psychologist, says after people are shot, every aspect of their life is impacted and that the journey to recovery can be both physical and mental. 

Da'Sean Pandy, who is 18, survived being shot in the head. In February 2023, he says he was getting off of the bus. 

"And two minutes later, a car is flying down the street, shooting," he said.

For five months after the shooting, he had to use a wheelchair and could not walk. He now continues his physical therapy with UofL Health, slowly regaining his mobility. 

He's come a long way, even getting to walk across the stage at his graduation from Breckinridge High School this past spring. He says he remains positive every day. "It could've been worse," he said.

UofL is the only level-one trauma center in the region, where critically injured patients are treated in an area of the hospital called room 9. 

The response is fast, and all of the resources of the hospital are available. 

"We call it the golden hour," he said. "It's an extremely critical period of time after someone's injured, and they can be golden minutes, quite frankly, after a gunshot wound because you can bleed out for major vessels in seconds."

That's one of the reasons Miller encourages people to take stop the bleed classes, so anyone can help someone if they've been shot. 

He says stopping someone from bleeding can be life or death. 

UofL offers Stop the Bleed classes. The next one is on Sept. 25.

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The UofL Hospital Trauma team recently hosted a community @stopthebleedproject training at Republic Bank Foundation YMCA. Attendees learn techniques like applying pressure, packing a wound and using a tourniquet to stop life-threatening bleeding.
UofL Health does about 60 Stop the Bleed trainings per year, including private classes and quarterly events open to the community.