Teachers, administrators and other personnel from the Spring Cove Area School District took part in a special emergency training session on Friday, led by Dr Simon Lampard, the Medical Director of UPMC Altoona’s Trauma Center.
The two-hour Stop The Bleed Program teaches basic hemorrhage control techniques, such as direct pressure and how to apply a tourniquet.
“All trauma centers in the western part of the state are working in unison to provide this in our local areas and spread the good word,” Dr. Lampard says.
The program aims to buy time for trained responders to arrive on an injury scene, whether in an isolated area or during an active shooter situation…
Spring Cove is the first Blair County School District to take part in Stop the Bleed.
Teachers feel it gave them potentially necessary classroom skills…
Jessica Kissel says, “it’s unfortunate that we even have to have training like this, but in a situation where children’s lives need to be saved its essential.”
And Principal Adam Macak says the lessons can be used in everyday school situations.
“Too often people think it could be an act of violence, but it could be something as simple as someone getting cut in the cafeteria and we need to step in and help them out,” he explains.
The UPMC Foundation also provided the school with Stop the Bleed kits with tourniquets, gauze and other supplies.
Schools and groups interested in the training should contact the UPMC Altoona Regional Trauma Center at 814-889-6098
