NDSU Extension offers STOP THE BLEED® Training at Central Dakota Ag Day Dec. 16

Minutes count! Someone who is severely bleeding can bleed to death in as little as five minutes. The number one cause of preventable death after injury is bleeding. That's why bleeding control – keeping the blood inside the body – is the purpose of STOP THE BLEED® training.

STOP THE BLEED® training will be offered as a concurrent session at Central Dakota Ag Day Dec. 16 at the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center. The STOP THE BLEED® session begins at 10:15 a.m.

A bleeding injury can happen anywhere. We've all seen it happen too often-on the news or in everyday life. Life-threatening bleeding can happen in people injured in serious accidents or disasters. The person next to a bleeding victim may very well be the one who's most likely to save him or her from bleeding to death. Instead of being a witness, you can become an immediate responder because you know how to STOP THE BLEED®.

With three quick actions, you can be trained to save a life. By learning how to STOP THE BLEED®, you'll gain the ability to recognize life-threatening bleeding and act quickly and effectively to control bleeding once you learn three quick techniques. Take the STOP THE BLEED® training course and become empowered to make a life-or-death difference when a bleeding emergency happens.

This one-hour course is open to anyone interested in learning this lifesaving skill. STOP THE BLEED® training is a way to turn bystanders into responders - to teach everyone the basics of bleeding control.

Our instructors will teach you live-in person, using training materials specially developed to teach bleeding control techniques. They will not only instruct you, they will be available to check your movements as you practice three different bleeding control actions. They will keep working with you until you demonstrate the correct skills to STOP THE BLEED® and save a life.

The American College of Surgeons STOP THE BLEED® campaign has trained over 1 million people including students, teachers, and community groups. This course is available for anyone who is old enough to understand what the course teaches and is interested in learning how to STOP THE BLEED® and save a life. The Carrington session is one hour long, and includes a formal presentation followed by hands-on practice of applying direct pressure, packing a wound, and using a tourniquet to stop bleeding.

All instructors volunteer their time and expertise to teach STOP THE BLEED® training. There is no charge for this Carrington STOP THE BLEED® course, thanks to community sponsorship that will reimburse travel expenses and purchase take-home tourniquet kits for each participant.

This Carrington session is pre-approved for 0.5 National CEUs for EMTs, and will likely be supplemented by another 0.5 credit at the state level.

The STOP THE BLEED® campaign was initiated by a federal interagency workgroup. The purpose of the campaign is to build national resilience by better preparing the public to save lives by raising awareness of basic actions to stop life threatening bleeding following everyday emergencies and man-made and natural disasters. Advances made by military medicine and research in hemorrhage control during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have informed the work of this initiative which exemplifies translation of knowledge back to the homeland to the benefit of the general public.

STOP THE BLEED® training will be offered as a concurrent session at Central Dakota Ag Day Dec. 16 at the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center.

Central Dakota Ag Day is organized by the Extension offices of Foster, Barnes, Eddy, Griggs, Sheridan, Stutsman, and Wells counties, as well as the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center.

The day begins at 9:00 a.m. with coffee, a welcome is scheduled at 9:20 a.m., and the first general session begins at 9:30 a.m., featuring Linton-area farmer/rancher Doug Bichler and his story "Life Left-Handed" following a traumatic farm injury. STOP THE BLEED® training begins immediately following Bichler's session, at 10:15 a.m. Full details about this event are available at https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/ag-hub/events/central-dakota-ag-day.

Additional sponsors of the Central Dakota Ag Day program include the North Dakota Corn Utilization Council, North Dakota Soybean Council and crop improvement associations in the organizing counties.

No registration is required. Lunch will be provided.

For more information, contact NDSU Foster County Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Agent Jeff Gale at 701-652-2581 or [email protected].

The CREC is three and a half miles north of Carrington on U.S. Highway 281.