Louisiana SCR 62: SCHOOLS: Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to implement a traumatic injury response program in all public schools.

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2020 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 62
BY SENATORS MILLIGAN, BARROW, BERNARD, BOUIE, CATHEY, CLOUD,
CORTEZ, FESI, FOIL, HEWITT, JACKSON, JOHNS, LAMBERT,
MCMATH, FRED MILLS, ROBERT MILLS, PEACOCK, PRICE,
REESE, SMITH, TALBOT AND WOMACK
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, through the
state Department of Education, to develop and implement a traumatic injury response
program to ensure that each city, parish, or other local public school in the state is
prepared to respond to a traumatic injury emergency.
WHEREAS, uncontrolled hemorrhage is a leading cause of preventable traumatic
deaths; and
WHEREAS, the first step to saving lives is stopping the bleed; and
WHEREAS, research has shown that bystanders, with little or no medical training,
can become heroic lifesavers; and
WHEREAS, improving public awareness about how to stop severe bleeding can
become the beginning of the trauma care chain of survival and make the difference between
life and death for an injured person; and
WHEREAS, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Defense, the American
College of Surgeons developed the "Stop the Bleed" program, and May 2020 is "National
Stop the Bleed Month"; and
WHEREAS, providing appropriate stop the bleed training and trauma kits in public
schools could empower appropriate school personnel to help in a bleeding emergency before
professional help arrives; and
WHEREAS, a traumatic injury response program should require that:
(1) Bleeding control kits are placed in easily accessible locations in designated rooms
in each school.
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(2) A bleeding control kit contain at least one tourniquet, one compression bandage,
one bleeding control bandage, one marker, one pair of scissors, one pair of protective latex-
free gloves, and instructional documents such as those developed by the "Stop the Bleed"
national awareness campaign of the United States Department of Homeland Security or the
American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
(3) The use of bleeding control kits be incorporated into each school's emergency
plans and that all school drills include practice on how to use the kits.
(4) Each school designate and train employees who are reasonably expected to
respond to traumatic injuries and use a bleeding control kit.
(5) Each bleeding control kit is annually inspected to ensure that the materials in the
kit are in workable order and not past the marked expiration date.
(6) The bleeding control kit is inspected and restocked after each use.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, through the state
Department of Education, to develop and implement a traumatic injury response program
to ensure that each city, parish, or other local public school in the state is prepared to respond
to a traumatic injury emergency.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state
superintendent of education.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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