(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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- On Oct. 12, Chicago Police officers David Watson and Paul Moreno received a call of "shots fired/person shot" over their cruiser's radio. It took the officers about a minute to arrive ...

Scott A. Scherr, MD, FACEP, Chairman of Emergency Services at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center Creating and applying a tourniquet is a relatively simple technique that can help control blood loss ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Rushing into a Houston home, police officer Austin Huckabee encountered a drunken, combative man bleeding profusely on the kitchen floor. He quickly realized the blood was spurting in ...

Stop the Bleed instructor Joe Ogershok demonstrates how to apply a tourniquet during an event for National Stop the Bleed Day at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, on May 19, 2022. (Photo courtesy ...

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