Evaluation of the Retention of Stop the Bleed Curriculum Over Time

David Wu, Claire Zagorski, Steve Steffensen, MD.

Stop the Bleed is a nationwide bystander bleeding control training brought to UT three years ago after a tragic and preventable death occurred on UT campus due to hemorrhaging. Since then, the Dell Medical School branch of Stop the Bleed has facilitated the installment of trauma kits in every UT building and has taught nearly 4,000 bystanders key skills such as tourniquet use, direct pressure, and wound packing.

Currently, there is no recertification standard for Stop the Bleed. However, other similar certifications such as The American Heart Association recommends CPR recertification every 2 years. Given the necessity of Stop the Bleed skills, this experiment will aim to evaluate the need of a recertification training.

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Comments

Thank you for sharing this valuable work! I hope to hear more once the research is able to resume. —Jeanette Herman

Wow! I had no idea this existed. So interesting! Thank you for sharing this. —Shannon Rose

So proud of the Longhorn Stop the Bleed family and all that has been accomplished! This is an excellent poster that is already informing the way we should be certifying the larger StB program. Thank you for all your hard work! —Steve Steffensen

This is great — both an important initiative, and a really well designed poster. Good work! —Rob Reichle