We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Dale and Deb Herd pose with educational materials and teaching aids available for a new public course designed to teach citizens without medical training how to stop bleeding. Dale is a Physician Assistant with a Havre clinic. The one hour course, offered free of charge, was the result of recommendations by many emergency and medical groups after the Sandy Hook School shooting in 2012. Northern Montana Hospital in Havre is making materials and aids available for the course.
Thirty local Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers spent a recent Sunday learning new protocols and skills, practicing and refining existing skills and participating in a Megacode simulation. The class members represented Blaine County ambulance crews from Chinook, Harlem and Turner/Hogeland and Hill County. Other medical personnel who interact with the ambulance crews, including Indian Health Services at Fort Belknap, Sweet Medical Center and Sweet Memorial Nursing Home, also participated. Dan Friede with the Chinook ambulance put the annual training event together.
Friede said the crews...
