Teaching how to stop the bleed: does it work? A prospective evaluation of tourniquet application in law enforcement officers and private security personnel
Introduction Stop the Bleed (STB) program was launched by the White House, for the use of bleeding control techniques at the scene of traumatic injury. The purpose of this study was to conduct an STB course in private security and law enforcement personnel. Methods Pre- and post-questionnaire using...
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Veröffentlicht in: | European journal of trauma and emergency surgery (Munich : 2007) 2021-02, Vol.47 (1), p.79-83 |
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Stop the Bleed (STB) program was launched by the White House, for the use of bleeding control techniques at the scene of traumatic injury. The purpose of this study was to conduct an STB course in private security and law enforcement personnel.
Methods
Pre- and post-questionnaire using the Likert scale was shared with participants on their knowledge and comfort level with the use of tourniquets. Participants were also observed while placing tourniquets and the time for placement recorded. The didactic portion and practical session of the STB was then taught and participants were again observed placing tourniquets and a questionnaire distributed. Fisher’s exact tests or Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks tests were used to compare pre–post measurements.
Results
A total of 151 subjects were enrolled over the course of seven sessions. The tourniquet was applied correctly by 17.2% (26/151) and 92.7% (140/151) at the pre- and post-instruction assessments, respectively (
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ISSN: | 1863-9933 1863-9941 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00068-019-01113-5 |