Stop the Bleed® free community workshops
A person who is bleeding profusely can die from blood loss within five minutes. No matter how quickly emergency professionals respond, the individuals on-scene are best positioned to assist and potentially stop life-threatening blood loss.
Inova’s Stop the Bleed® courses are free and open to the community. Attendees will enhance their emergency preparedness by learning the difference between bleeding and life-threatening blood loss, and how to react to both.
Instructed by Inova trauma surgeons and nurses, the workshop includes hands-on practice with tourniquets and wound packing. Practicing these skills gives the learner a deeper understanding of what it means to Stop the Bleed, and the confidence that they can help someone in an emergency.