Superior Bleeding Control: Online Course

Description

This online course trains bystanders in the community how to administer care to others with confidence in a life-threatening situation, where a victim, or victims, may lose their life due to a serious injury that results in bleeding. Instruction will include use of commercial bleeding control tools as well as information on how to create improvised bandages and tourniquets from everyday items. Completion of this course will prepare you to provide life-saving measures while waiting for Emergency Service Providers to arrive on scene and improve victim survival by ensuring smooth transition of care.
Learning Objectives
Identify steps to maintain personal safety
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
Examine how to create and apply improvised bandages
Summarize how community responders and emergency service providers should work together to treat bleeding victims