Sadly, the US is experiencing a wave of gun violence. Whether the result of an uptick in shootings in big cities, or high-profile shootings such as those recently in the New York City subway system, Buffalo, NY or Uvalde, TX, all have common denominators: needless loss of life and suffering. This begs the questions: Could steps have been taken to mitigate the loss of life? If so, what are they? Is public access bleeding control...
ASIS International, the premier global community of security practitioners, published Public Access Bleeding Control and the Standard of Care: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats on March 17, 2022 as an online exclusive to Security Management magazine. The article, co-authored by our team members, examines at the impact the widespread availability of public access bleeding control equipment and the related training could have on negligence actions. The article can be accessed here. More about ASIS...
Excelsior Advisory Associates is proud to be part of the STOP THE BLEED® Ambassador Program. Ambassadors engage their communities to learn about how anyone can be prepared to save a life by becoming trained and equipped to respond to a serious bleed. STOP THE BLEED® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency.
On August 24 2018, a report compiled by the Clark County Fire Department and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) Agency National Exercise Division was released to the public. A copy of the report can be found here. The purpose of the report is twofold: First, to analyze the emergency response to the Route 91 Harvest Festival Mass Shooting. Second, to present observations and recommendations with the...
The above headline appeared in the October 13, 2017 edition of the NY Post, less than two weeks after the horrific shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas. The NY Post article can be accessed here. Both incidents have something in common: the central role that improvisation played in responding to the emergencies. Put succinctly: “To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.” — Isaac Asimov To be...
In April of 2013, the American College of Surgeons convened the Joint Committee to Create a National Policy to Enhance Survivability from Intentional Mass Casualty and Active Shooter Events. The impetus for the committee was the active shooter incident that occurred a few months earlier at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. The committee’s purpose was “to create a protocol for national policy to enhance survivability from active shooter and intentional mass casualty events.”...
For much of the last century the use of tourniquets to control bleeding in the prehospital setting was discouraged as they were viewed as doing “more harm than good.” Recent studies have called into question this understanding. The results of one such study appeared in the Summer 2015 edition of the Journal of Special Operations Medicine. The study, Prehospital Use of Hemostatic Bandages and Tourniquets: Translation From Military Experience to Implementation in Civilian Trauma Care...
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