Published on January 09, 2024
Owensboro Health Supplies Daviess County Sheriff’s Deputies with First Aid Kits, Training
In an effort to support the community’s law enforcement officers, Owensboro Health Regional Hospital Trauma Services recently presented the Daviess County Sheriff’s Office with 40 individual Medical First Aid Kits (M-FAK) for each uniformed deputy. The staff with Owensboro Health Trauma Services Department will provide deputies with Stop The Bleed training in conjunction with issuing the kits.
Partially funded by a grant from Owensboro Health Foundation, OHRH Trauma Services partnered with the Owensboro Police Department to provide each officer with Stop the Bleed training in September 2023. Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign that encourages bystanders to become trained, equipped and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before medical help arrives. OPD issues each officer a tourniquet as part of their uniform and Trauma Services provided the education and skill for each officer to use the tourniquets they possess.
Unlike OPD, Daviess County Sheriff’s Office deputies are not issued a tourniquet as part of their uniform. Working with DCSO leadership, Trauma Services provided each deputy with an individual first aid kit which includes a tourniquet, chest seal, gloves, bandage and emergency trauma dressing. This kit is designed to be used on the individual officer in the unfortunate event they are injured and require this immediate first aid response. Officers can either use the kit on themselves or assist other officers.
Trauma Services will begin educating the DSCO deputies in Stop The Bleed training within the next few weeks.
“One of our goals at Owensboro Health is to be a good community partner and work with our law enforcement officials and first responders to help prepare them for trauma events which unfortunately happen,” Owensboro Health Regional Hospital Director of Trauma Services Mike Mixson said. “We will continue to partner with our community to educate and support injury prevention and exceptional trauma care however we can.”
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