Longview Agencies, Educators Offer Stop the Bleed Training
May 20, 2019
UT Tyler Office of Marketing and Communications
Longview Agencies, Educators Offer Stop the Bleed Training
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Media Contact: Beverley Golden
Senior Director of Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.566.7303
The University of Texas at Tyler announced today that it is one of six Longview entities that have collaborated to provide the Stop the Bleed life-saving program to the community.
A few months after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a group of Federal government and healthcare leaders created the Hartford Consensus to explore training the public to become immediate responders to active shooter events.
Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign intended to encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives.
"This training is designed to teach people with no healthcare experience how to correctly apply tourniquets and use direct pressure on uncontrolled bleeding wounds," said Dr. Katheryn Courville, UT Tyler Longview University Center assistant professor of nursing. "Immediate response may save a life."
The course is free and participants will practice using the tourniquet and direct pressure dressings.
Times: All classes are 5:30 - 7 p.m. Dates and locations are:
Tuesday, May 21
Longview Fire Department Training Center
411 American Legion
Thursday, May 23
UT Tyler Longview University Campus, Room 211
3201 N. Eastman Drive (across from Ellis Pottery)
Monday, June 10
CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Institute for Healthy Living
3133 Good Shepherd Way
Thursday, June 20
Longview Regional Medical Center
Senior Circle Center
3000 N. Fourth Street
Space is limited. For reservations, email kcourville@uttyler.edu. If you have any questions about the Longview classes, call 903.746.3231.
This event is held in the spirit of One Longview and is a collaboration of the city of Longview, Longview Fire Department, UT Tyler School of Nursing, East Texas Emergency Nurses Association, CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Health System and Longview Regional Medical Center.
For more information about the national program Stop the Bleed, visit www.bleedingcontrol.org.
A member of the prestigious UT System, The University of Texas at Tyler focuses on student success and innovative research in the more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered. With more than 10,000 students, UT Tyler has facilities in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.