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Scurry County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Roemisch (right) showed District Clerk employee Cheryl Summers how to work with a tourniquet during a Stop the Bleed training session Thursday morning for county employees.
Scurry County employees are now better prepared to help victims if they are bleeding.
Jason Tyler and Russell Thomas of Scurry County EMS led a Stop the Bleed training session for employees on Thursday. The paramedics showed employees the proper way to stop a person from bleeding after a natural disaster or shooting incident.
“We wanted to show what to do until we (EMS) got here,” Tyler said. “A shooting can take place in two to three minutes, but you will be here before us. We will be prepared to come in with law enforcement and we will get you out of harm’s way.”
Tyler said if a bleeding incident does occur, the person closest to the victim should make sure they are safe first, but should be ready to help.
“You need to stop the bleeding before it gets out of control,” he said.
It is proven that using a tourniquet saves lives in Scurry County and other areas. Tyler said local game wardens were given tourniquets recently and without them, two men would have died after suffering serious injuries at Lake Alan Henry. Tyler added that tourniquets have been used on victims in car accidents and doctors said it saved the person’s life.
Thomas has conducted similar trainings at the Snyder and Ira school districts and each campus has a Stop the Bleed kit provided by the Texas State Department of Health and Human Services Regional Advisory Council based in Lubbock and Abilene.
“We are working to get some training in Hermleigh,” Thomas said.
In addition to learning how to use a tourniquet, county employees were shown the proper way to apply direct pressure to a wound and how to pack a wound.