BY DAN HILDEBRAN
An emergency preparedness manager at UF Health in Jacksonville trained a Lake Region group on how to stop bleeding for severely injured people.
Jennifer Silvey-Cason told a joint meeting of the Lake Region Sheriff’s Net and the Chamber of Commerce’s Lake Region Prosperity Partners at Keystone’s First Baptist Church on April 25 that using a belt or a shoelace as a tourniquet to stop bleeding can do more harm than good.
Silvey-Cason recommended that residents purchase and keep with them a tourniquet in case of emergencies. She suggested the brand Cat Tourniquets.
“I don’t get paid for advertisements,” she told the crowd. “I have used tourniquets for years in real-world events, and I have a favorite that I like.” The presenter added that the Velcro on the medical device distinguishes the brand from other tourniquets.
Silvey-Cason said that in the absence of a tourniquet, bystanders should use their hands to apply pressure to a bleeding area to allow the clotting process to begin.
