Jayden K, along with two dozen other students in the Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center’s (CATEC) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) class recently learned what it’s really like to pack a bleeding gunshot wound and properly apply a tourniquet to treat a deep laceration. With several gallons of our simulant blood in tow, TrueClot’s Brad Day provided hands-in instruction to prepare these EMTs-in-training to master advanced bleeding control skills.
The goal? Learn to pack a wound and apply a tourniquet as quickly and correctly as possible.
Uncontrolled bleeding is a major cause of preventable deaths. It only takes 3-5 minutes to bleed out. Quick response and proper treatment are key to survivability.
And the students agreed. Several students made a point of telling us they loved the clotting blood, and the task trainers gave them a much easier way to develop critical skills.
TrueClot® bleeding control training products provide extraordinary realism, including clotting blood simulant that looks and behaves like real blood. Developed and manufactured in Charlottesville, VA, these task trainers are low-cost, durable, and easy to use, making them ideal for table-top demonstrations, live actor and scenario training, and simulation centers.
This patented training system was developed more than 10 years ago in Charlottesville by Luna Labs in response to the Department of Defense’s need for cost-effective, realistic bleeding control training for combat medics and corpsmen. Today, TrueClot’s bleeding control trainers are used around the world to ensure the readiness of emergency medical services (EMS) and military personnel to treat critical bleeding control injuries. In addition, the company’s basic wound packing and tourniquet trainers are used to train civilians as immediate responders, preparing them to deliver life-saving bleeding control in disaster, crisis, or other emergency situations.
TrueClot officially supports CATEC’s community affiliates program to ensure the medics of tomorrow have access to the best bleeding control training possible.
Thanks to NBC29 News for coverage of this training event.
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