Would you know how to stop the bleed if your loved one had a deep laceration causing severe bleeding? Would you know how to stop the bleed if you witnessed an act of violence? Everyone hopes to never ...

Related To: GT Distributors Inc. GT Distributors now offers Elite First Aid’s Combat Application Tourniquet. Police personnel as first responders use the C-A-T tourniquet to save lives at accident ...

A Wilderness EMT reveals the must-have first aid items for your pack, and the smart way to use each one when the unexpected happens.

CPR and the Heimlich maneuver are routine first aid. Look around schools, libraries, concert halls and many gyms and you'll see a heart defibrillator ready for action. Now, as we face more mass ...

(Reuters Health) - Homemade kits used to train bystanders to step in and stop bleeding after a gunshot wound could save lives, a new report suggests. St. Louis doctors came up with some ingenious ...

There are some skills you hope you never need to use, but having them could be a matter of life and death: welcome to bleeding control. BleedingControl.org, an group begun by the American College of ...

One hundred and forty minutes. That’s the amount of time between when gunmen at the Bataclan theater began rounding up survivor-hostages after their initial killing spree, and when police began their ...

“Through simply touching, more directly than in any other way, we can transmit to each other something of the power of the life we have inside us.” — Frederick Buechner During a recent presentation of ...

IT can be really destressing when your baby cries for seemingly no reason. Especially when you've tried everything possible to calm him or her down. A hair being wrapped so tightly that it could cut ...