Since 2020, Texas law has mandated that schools offer students as young as seventh graders lessons in "battlefield trauma care," where children learn how to apply tourniquets and chest seals in class.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A man’s life saved by friends who tried to stop his bleeding from a shark bite showed just how important it can be to know how to tie a tourniquet. First responders said those ...

Under House Bill 496, a Texas law that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, stop-the-bleed kits are required in public schools and teachers must have training. But there are useful tools inside each kit ...

Walking through the campus at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, you may come across “Stop the Bleed” kits. Inside you’ll find tools to help control bleeding on yourself or someone else ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Following the mass shooting that killed 11 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Medical officials say during the mass ...

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 ...

Texas schools may start teaching 8-year-olds how to apply tourniquets. The third graders will learn to wrap the strap around a bloody arm or leg. They’ll twist the rod until the bleeding stops and ...

I WAS JUST IN THE CAR HOOTING AND HOLLERING. KEVIN DONEGAN IS TALKING ABOUT THE CALL HE GOT FROM HIS DAUGHTER WHEN HE FOUND OUT SHE HAD JUST HELPED APPLY A TOURNIQUET ON A WOUNDED OFFICER. I STILL ...