Stony Brook University Hospital has launched survival training for officials in school districts across Long Island on how to handle injuries in the event of a shooting.
Paramedics and doctors from the hospital’s trauma center are offering a course called B-Con, or Bleeding Control for the Injured. Colby Rowe, Stony Brook Hospital trauma center’s educational coordinator, says it’s designed to teach bystanders how to keep a victim alive until medical professionals arrive.
“It’s really to save anybody and stop bleeding that could be life threatening. It doesn’t have to be from a mass casualty incident, but it could save one person who happens to cut themselves maybe on a piece of glass in the school,” Rowe says.
Courses have already been taught in districts such as Riverhead, Hampton Bays and Shoreham. The training is a part of a broader initiative called the Stop the Bleed Campaign, created by the Department of Homeland Security after the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings.