Lethbridge Fire & Emergency Services has partnered with Enmax Centre staff and the Lethbridge Hurricanes to provide in-depth training on how to prevent fatal bleeding.
A special medical kit is now at the Enmax Centre and it's much more than your basic box of first aid supplies. The goal of the project is to save lives. And, as Micah Quintin reports, a demonstration was held to show how helpful it can be in an emergency.“The exciting thing about the medication that we use, it actually enhances clotting factors by 10 times,” says Lethbridge Police Chief Greg Adair.is a medical kit as well as a public awareness campaign.
“When people see blood — and especially lots of it on an ice surface — it’s shocking and people panic,” said Dr. Kirstin Derdall, the department head of anesthesia at the hospital.“But with a little bit of training and education, apply pressure, put the dressing on, put a tourniquet on. Three kind of simple steps.
“If people can keep those three simple things in mind, it’s going to make a huge difference,” Derdall said.Ex-member of Chinese cyber warfare department was living in Winnipeg: officials
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