Would you know how to stop the bleed if your loved one had a deep laceration causing severe bleeding? Would you know how to stop the bleed if you witnessed an act of violence? Everyone hopes to never ...

GT Distributors now offers Elite First Aid’s Combat Application Tourniquet. Police personnel as first responders use the C-A-T tourniquet to save lives at accident scenes across the U.S. Small and ...

(Reuters Health) - Homemade kits used to train bystanders to step in and stop bleeding after a gunshot wound could save lives, a new report suggests. St. Louis doctors came up with some ingenious ...

The Army is now issuing the Individual First Aid Kit II, a more complete kit that includes more trauma gear, a new eye shield and a more streamlined pouch. The IFAK II contains all the supplies of the ...

CPR and the Heimlich maneuver are routine first aid. Look around schools, libraries, concert halls and many gyms and you'll see a heart defibrillator ready for action. Now, as we face more mass ...

There are some skills you hope you never need to use, but having them could be a matter of life and death: welcome to bleeding control. BleedingControl.org, an group begun by the American College of ...

One hundred and forty minutes. That’s the amount of time between when gunmen at the Bataclan theater began rounding up survivor-hostages after their initial killing spree, and when police began their ...

“Through simply touching, more directly than in any other way, we can transmit to each other something of the power of the life we have inside us.” — Frederick Buechner During a recent presentation of ...