Sunday, September 16, 2018

Random Scandal Sheet for Sunday 9/16/18

What southern Florida is talking about this week:

Learning how to stop the bleed.

Because we live in modern times, it's no longer enough to know that you can save lives with chest compressions to the tune of 'Staying Alive' as you do your CPR ... or how to use an AED when you come across someone collapsed from a heart attack in need of a good paddling ... now, courtesy of our culture's "fondness" for mass shooting events, the latest healthcare empowerment campaign is all about teaching the common folk how to react to stop people with bullet holes in them from bleeding out.

And although those aforementioned events can happen anywhere now (movie theatres, gaming conventions, nightclubs, concerts, etc. etc. etc.), it's also true that schools are the classic location -- and so it is the local schools that are being provided the kits and the training.  Which, although in a way is sad commentary, anything that helps save lives after these things that are all but guaranteed to keep on happening is the right thing to learn.

MODERN LIVING MEANS KNOWING MORE THAN JUST CPR AND AED STUFF:
http://stopthebleedingcoalition.org/

THE LATEST WAY THAT THE PUBLIC CAN "GET INVOLVED":
https://southfloridareporter.com/broward-health-free-stop-the-bleed-event-trains-public-to-help-during-bleeding-emergency/

ANYTHING THAT HELPS ... 'CAUSE THIS EPIDEMIC ISN'T GOING AWAY:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-school-shooting-bleeding-kits-20180613-story.html