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Correspondence| Volume 37, ISSUE 10, P1985-1987, October 01, 2019

Stop the bleed training outreach initiatives targeting high school students: It takes a community to save a life

Published:April 16, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2019.04.033
Stop the bleed training outreach initiatives targeting high school students: It takes a community to save a life
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      Over the last several years, there has been an increase in mass shootings in the United States [
      A study of active shooter incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013.
      Federal Bureau of Investigation
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      Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2016 and 2017. Federal Bureau of Investigation. https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-us-2016-2017.pdf/view. Accessed December 24, 2018.

      ]. Although emergency response times are often <15 min in major cities, there is valuable time that is not always utilized, while the victims wait for emergency responders. In the hopes of increasing survival in the event of a mass casualty incident, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) launched the Stop the Bleed (STB) national awareness campaign on hemorrhage control in 2013 [
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      Bleeding Control
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      Publication History

      Published online: April 16, 2019
      Accepted: April 15, 2019
      Received in revised form: April 15, 2019
      Received: April 10, 2019

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2019.04.033

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