How Bystanders Can Use Med Tac Training to Save Lives
Med Tac training teaches non-medical bystanders life-saving steps they can administer to individuals experiencing health crises in the critical minutes before first responders arrive.
Med Tac training teaches non-medical bystanders life-saving steps they can administer to individuals experiencing health crises in the critical minutes before first responders arrive.
AEDs and bleeding control kits can save lives, but only if they are always accessible and staff members know how to use them.
Katherine Schweit, who is author of the FBI’s seminal research ‘A Study of 160 Active Shooter Incidents in the United States, 2000 – 2013,’ will present ‘The Mass Shooting Contagion Dilemma’ at the Campus Safety Conference at EDSpaces in Pittsburgh this November.
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First responders take about ten minutes on average to arrive at the scene of an emergency. Bystander care could assist in saving a life.
In 2020, 68 sworn officers and dispatchers at Georgia State University completed nearly five times the required amount of training.
Classes already developed for face-to-face classes can easily be adapted for remote formats during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Returning Campus Safety Conference presenter Corina Bilger will discuss the M.A.R.C.H. mnemonic device used in combat for improving trauma care.
Members of the Junior ROTC program at San Marcos Academy and local first responders put together 60 Stop the Bleed kits for the school.
“One’s survival strategy must reflect that person’s physical and psychological characteristics, location, and the nature of the threat itself.”