It's only been since the early 1990s that CPR training has been available to the general public, and this simple training has saved countless lives. MRMC's 'Stop the Bleed' campaign aims to save even more lives with training to treat traumatic hemorrhage.For Col. Michael Davis, the problem isn't the blood--as a reconstructive surgeon by trade, it's never been about the blood--rather it's the way Hollywood always make the blood look so … bloody."It's not like a horror movie," said Davis, director of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCCRP), talking about the mechanics of traumatic bleeding and perception versus reality. "You're never going to see projectile bleeding from a patient like you do on the screen, but people always think they will."
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