A hospital in Bay Shore recently donated blood control devices to Long Island MacArthur Airport, located in Ronkonkoma.
Southside Hospital supplied the airport with three of what are known as bleeding control stations. Each one contains tourniquets and gauze that can be pressed to open wounds to help control bleeding before first responders arrive. The kits, also called “Stop the Bleed” kits, are kept in stations in the wall, stored in the same way as Automated External Defibrillators.
Ronkonkoma is part of Islip, and Angie Carpenter, the town's supervisor, said the community was grateful to the hospital for the donation. She hopes no one ever has to use kits designed to handle trauma of this sort but is glad the devices are available. Officials with options like this can use poster printing to create Signs that label the control stations.
Southside Hospital, as well as the Northwell Health Trauma Institute have spent many hours educating groups in communities throughout Long Island, teaching how to give aid most effectively and efficiently to someone who has suffered a traumatic injury.
Timothy Dackow, NP, is a trauma coordinator with Southside Hospital. He notes that it is possible for a person to bleed to death in minutes, depending on the injury and the situation. The best chance someone has in these critical moments is for a bystander to use the kits to control the bleeding.
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