APPLETON — May is national Stop the Bleed month, and nurses from the Appleton Area School District spent time this week training with Appleton firefighters.
Launched by the American College of Surgeons following the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Stop the Bleed is a national training initiative designed to teach non-medical personnel to identify significant, traumatic bleeding and stop it long enough for first responders to arrive.
“We’ve been ramping up our Stop the Bleed training lately. Thanks to the Appleton Area School District Nurses for spending a few hours training with us,” read a social media post Wednesday from the fire department.
There have been 18 school shootings this year nationwide that resulted in injuries or deaths, according to Education Week, which has been recording the statistics.
There have been 162 such shootings since 2018 with 51 school shootings with injuries or deaths last year, the most in a single year since Education Week began tracking such incidents in 2018.
In the most recent school shooting incident on May 1, a 31-year-old woman was shot and injured in a school parking lot during student pickup time in Flint, Mich. Police say the shooting occurred after the victim got into a fight with another parent.
