Applying a tourniquet can help slow or limit excessive bleeding in an emergency. It typically involves wrapping material around the source of bleeding and applying pressure to stop or slow bleeding.

Walking through the campus at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, you may come across “Stop the Bleed” kits. Inside you’ll find tools to help control bleeding on yourself or someone else ...

Phlebotomy is when someone uses a needle to take blood from a vein, usually in your arm. Also called a blood draw or venipuncture, it’s an important tool for diagnosing many medical conditions.

After the Boston bombings, 27 patients with life-threatening bleeding were saved by placement of tourniquets applied at the scene. If someone was bleeding uncontrollably, would you know what to do?

“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 ...