The Most Important Article You Will Read This Year: “Stop the Bleed”
The New Yorker magazine published this very informative and important article by journalist Paige Williams about training bystanders to save lives.
Bystanders can and must be first responders, and they can learn the techniques to stop bleeding. These are crucial as a person can bleed to death in five to eight minutes.
It is a sad commentary on our society but it is reality: none of us knows when we will be the bystander whose fast thinking and action are required to save the life of a friend or a stranger.
The number of shootings and acts of terrorism has escalated and is now called an “Intentional Mass Casualty Event.”
Williams begins with a dramatic account of one of these events at a high school in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
“One April morning in 2014, a sixteen-year-old sophomore at Franklin Regional Senior High, in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, stole two butcher knives from his parents’ kitchen, hid them in his backpack, and took them to school. He was wearing all black and, according to witnesses, had a “blank expression.” Just before first period, in the hall of the science wing, he stabbed several classmates. Then he pulled the fire alarm. As the corridor filled with people, the boy moved down the hallway, a knife in each hand, stabbing more students. He turned and raced back up the hall—an administrator CONTINUE READING: The Most Important Article You Will Read This Year: “Stop the Bleed” | Diane Ravitch's blog