Would you know how to save a life?

Yesterday in Lexington on Stop the Blade Day, people learned some valuable life saving lessons from UK health care.

National Stop the Bleed Day, May 23rd.

It originated with Sandy Hook back in 2015 and they evacuated that situation and realized that there were things that people could have done had they known to help save some lives that day.

Very similar to CPR being taught in the community and aid machines have been taught.

This is a very simple thing that bystanders can do to help increase a person's chance of survival.

We're trying to heighten awareness in the community of what a bystander can do to help a person that's been injured.

Between injury and the time that the ambulance arrived, the number one preventable death is bleeding after an injury.

Community members are generally the first people who meet the victim, the ones that call 911.

The number one thing we promote is your safety first.

If it's not a safe scene, if you're not comfortable, then by all means, we don't want you to get involved and get hurt as well.

The goal is to help people not increase the numbers.

I've never I've never come across a massive bleeding case.

I mean, I have been in slightly emergency situations before where I was hard pressed because I didn't know the skill in the moment, which was happened to be a very simple skill.

But I didn't know it and I panicked because I didn't know what to do.

Stop the Bleed is ABC alert for help?

You want help coming because you're supposed to be the gap in between the injury and when the professionals arrive.

So A is for alert, B is bleeding.

You're going to look over and see where they're bleeding and C is for compression.

So you're going to hold pressure if you have to stuff a sleeve or something in there, but you're just going to be holding pressure to help slow that bleeding down until the professionals come.

A person can bleed out in less than 5 minutes in an ambulance after they've been notified, may take up to five or 7 minutes to get there.

So there is that gap in time that a person could survive if some bystander would just intervene and hold pressure.

You can use a sleeve of a t shirt if you've got a gym bag, if you've got a gym sock, if you've got towels, if you've got a rag that you use, you can use anything in there to stop that bleeding if something is still sticking in a patient.

We encourage you not to remove it because that's actually doing some of the packing for you.

I now have it trained in my brain what I need to do in the moment versus because when you get that adrenaline rush, a lot of your your thinking ability goes out the window.

We tell people if they're uncomfortable with blood, if they have grocery bags from Walmart, Kroger or any of your standard plastic bags, that's a nice barrier.

If you're not comfortable with your bare hands.

We do encourage people that if you get blood on you to definitely let the professionals that come to the scene know that you've been exposed to blood.

They have physical activities in place.

So you're not just it's not just a written or a video, you actually get to do it.

Therefore it's now in your muscle memory, in your core, and it's something you can carry carry with you for the rest of your life.

You can teach it to your children, you can teach it to your family members.

And it's simple.

It's easy to get information.

You can buy a kit to use during a bleeding emergency and find out information about classes at Stop the Bleed dot o RG.