Premedical assistance: mastering step by step

The training center of the Volunteer-68 NGO once again hosted a training session for first responders.

This time, the lecture and practical exercises were devoted to stopping bleeding in two different ways, namely by applying tourniquets and by tamponading wounds.

In the theoretical part, lecturer Mykhailo Morgun focused on the safety and logic of first aid, touching on its legal aspects.

But the main thing that our trainers tried to convey was the algorithm and protocol of actions of someone who can potentially stop the bleeding of a victim.

How to recognize the signs of bleeding? Where and in what way, depending on the nature and intensity of the bleeding, can certain stopping techniques be applied? The trainers drew our attention to these fundamental questions, presented in various situational scenarios, throughout the six hours of training.

Mykhailo Morgun and his assistants from the Vostok Tactical Medicine Center demonstrated the rules of applying different types of tourniquets in practical classes, and after several attempts our colleagues have mastered this art. As for tamponade, we more or less coped with this challenge, although training on dummies is naturally different from the cruel reality.   

This was just one of the modules of premedical training and we sincerely thank the rescuers from the Tactical Medicine Center “East” for their professional presentation of the difficult material.