If you could trade one hour to save someone else’s life, would you?
Now’s your chance.
As part of its ongoing Stop the Bleed campaign – which trains members of the community to stabilize a wound until EMTs arrive – STHS is offering two free hourlong classes on the topic, and the public are invited to attend.
Both will be held in the Covington Room on the health system’s hospital campus (1202 S. Tyler St., Covington), and both will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 10. The first session will be from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., with the second going from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
“The number one cause of a preventable death is hemorrhage, or bleeding out,” said St. Tammany Health System Trauma Services Manager Bethany Monistere, the driving force behind the health system’s Stop the Bleed program. “But it’s not that hard to put on a tourniquet or identify life-threatening bleeding. If you can arm citizens with this information to control bleeding, you can save someone’s life.”
Register at StTammany.health for either course by following the appropriate links below:
Note: To protect our community from COVID-19, St. Tammany Health System maintains visitor rules following CDC and OSHA recommendations. Consequently, all visitors to St. Tammany Health System facilities must wear a face covering at all times and be free of COVID-19 symptoms.