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First responders offer free classes on how to stop someone from bleeding to death

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Mass shootings, like the one last week in Florida, can leave some people feeling nervous.

While mass shootings don’t happen every day, car accidents and industrial accidents do. With all that in mind, hospitals around the country are putting on free workshops to teach people how to prevent someone from bleeding to death.

The goal is to make bleeding control more common knowledge, like the Heimlich maneuver or CPR.

Stateside’s Lindsey Scullen attended one of these classes last month. Listen to her story above. And a warning to sensitive listeners: you’ll hear details of life threatening wounds in this story.

Click hereto find a bleeding control class at a hospital near you.(Subscribe to the Stateside podcast oniTunes,Google Play, or with thisRSS link)

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Attendees wait for the Stop the Bleed class to begin.
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Attendees wait for the Stop the Bleed class to begin.
State Rep. LaTanya Garrett (D-Detroit) practices using a tourniquet on Dr. Allan Lamb, trauma medical director for Beaumont Trenton.
Beth Montalvo / Beaumont Health
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State Rep. LaTanya Garrett (D-Detroit) practices using a tourniquet on Dr. Allan Lamb, trauma medical director for Beaumont Trenton.

Lindsey Scullen started at Michigan Radio last year as an intern for Stateside. Now she’s with the Environment Report as a newsroom and web intern. At the same time, she’s finishing up her final semester at the University of Michigan where she majors in Comparative Literature and Spanish, and minors in Environment and Complex Systems. She moonlights as a fairly poor, yet resolute, salsa dancer.