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Whether it's from a sawing accident, a car crash or a gunshot wound, when blood starts pouring, saving a life starts with stopping the bleeding.
Meyer says "A" stands for alert somebody.
"If you come upon a scene and see something, call 911," Meyer says. "Yell out to somebody to get help."
She says "B" stands for bleeding.
"So look for that bleeding source," Meyer says. "Is there a lot of blood around the area? What are we looking at? Find the bleeding source."
Finally, she says, "C" is for compression.
"We're going to compress that area, be it with a wound and dressing application or with tourniquet application," Meyer says.
Meyer teaches courses on how to stop the bleed, and says getting a tourniquet placed 2 inches above wounds on the extremities can be the difference between life and death.
She says in her career as a trauma nurse, she has seen to many cases end badly because people did not know what to do when they saw someone badly injured and bleeding.
"They are very sad when you think of - by a tourniquet application or somebody applying pressure directly to that wound - their life could have been saved," Meyer says.
That's why it's important to remember "A," alert; "B," assess the bleeding, and "C," compress the wound.
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