• Texas House Bill 496 Sec. 38.030 requires that each school district implements a Traumatic Injury Response Protocol for use in the event of a traumatic injury involving blood loss.
• The bill requires that bleeding control stations are stored in easily accessible areas throughout the school and that training is provided to all employees and offered to students.
• No matter how rapid the arrival of emergency responders, bystanders will always be first on the scene of trauma.
• A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss in 3–5 minutes, therefore it is important to quickly stop the blood loss.
• “Stop the Bleed” is a nationwide campaign to empower individuals to act quickly and save lives.

The campaign originated from a surgeon who looked at the autopsy reports of the students at Sandy Hook Elementary School and determined that many of the fatalities were preventable if bleeding control had been provided sooner.

Midland Academy Charter School is offering parents the option for their 8th grade students to receive training along with training for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). 

Stop the Bleed/CPR Permission Form TBA