One Step to Improve Health Equity in Communities
May is an important month in health and safety awareness. In addition to National EMS Week, May 20, 2021 marks an important day for not only emergency responders, but citizens across the country. May 20 has been designated as “Stop the Bleed” day, part of a nationwide effort this month to empower civilians to save lives with basic training to treat excessive bleeding. The primary cause of preventable trauma death in the U.S. is uncontrolled bleeding. A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within five minutes. Therefore it is important to quickly stop the blood loss. While it is ...
Source: emsworld.com