Stop the Bleed Part 2 Tourniquet

could protect you in the absence of gloves during bleeding emergencies.

3. Explain: 20 minutes

Answer the following questions using the information you learned in the "bleeding" and tourniquet activities.

1. How does 1 (one) correctly placed tourniquet save a life?

2. How much pain will your victim experience after you apply a tourniquet?

3. Where will you locate the radial pulse?

4. Where would you place a tourniquet for an arm or leg wound?

5. What 2 (two) techniques can you use when talking to your victim?

4. Elaborate/Extend: 20 minutes

5. Look around the classroom, what items can be used for a makeshift tourniquet? • Discuss as a group what you found that could work. • What items did your group find?

6. Pick something you found and use it on the jug and chair simulator. Did it work? How do you know that it worked?

7. View this video (2:33): How a tourniquet saved this person's life • Describe how you feel about these heroes? • Would you be able to save a life? •

How would you define the professionalism seen in the video from the 1 st responders? • What does professional mean to you? What does it look like?