Oceanside Boy Scouts are learning life saving training

CPR is important, but what if you come across someone who is bleeding badly and needs help?

That’s something members of Oceanside Boy Scout Troop 230 and learned recently at St. Anthony’s Parish Hall through “Stop the Bleed” training from Mount Sinai South Nassau’s community education department.

Based on lessons learned by the U.S. Department of Defense during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last couple decades on how best to control severe bleeding, “Stop the Bleed” is a grassroots national awareness campaign to train and equip everyday people to use medically proven bleeding control practices to save the lives of those suffering a traumatic injury involving severe blood loss.

Through hands-on practice on simulated medical mannequin appendages and one-on-one instruction from Mount Sinai’s “Stop the Bleed” trainers, the Scouts learned three techniques that could help save a life:

• How to use your hands to apply pressure to a wound

• How to pack a wound to control bleeding

• How to correctly apply a tourniquet.

“Oftentimes, individuals at the scene of a serious accident will be the first to respond to a bleeding victim,” said Abby Fromm, the community education director at Mount Sinai South Nassau, in a release. “By learning how to stop the bleed, the Boy Scouts now have the ability to recognize life-threatening bleeding, and to act quickly and effectively to control bleeding.”

For more information about the “Stop the Bleed” training or Mount Sinai South Nassau’s community education program, call (516) 377-5333.