Hartford will become the first city in the country to widely deploy Bleeding Control Bags developed by Hartford Hospital as a frontline defense against mass-casualty events, including mass shootings and explosions,according to an announcement from U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
Blumenthal and Hartford Hospital’s vice president of academic affairs and chief academic officer, Dr. Lenworth Jacobs, made the announcement Monday, with Blumenthal planning to call for federal funding to expand access to the life-saving kits nationwide.
Similar to automated external defibrillators widely available in public spaces across the country, the Stop the Bleed kits provide individuals a tourniquet, hemostatic gauze and other equipment and guidance needed to provide immediate care to victims awaiting arrival of emergency medical teams, according the announcement. The gauze is produced by Z-Medica in Wallingford.
