CHAMPION, Ohio (WKBN) - Kent State University Trumbull Campus hosted an event called Stop the Bleed teaching people how to help if they come across someone with life-threatening bleeding on Friday.
More than 100 students, faculty and staff were taught how to properly apply a tourniquet and the best way to pack a wound, simple skills that could help save an injured person's life.
"Most people when they are in the middle of an emergency, they want to help, they want to be able to do something, and so these are very easy things that we can teach people so that they can provide help," said Trumbull Regional Medical Center Trauma Coordinator Peggy Higgins.
The program sought to teach people what to do if they come across someone with an injury while giving them the chance to practice their skills in a non-emergency setting.
"It was fantastic, you know, to kind of practice among peers and with instructors that have seen this first hand and know what to do," said junior nursing student Blake Spurlock.
"If you don't put your hands out and learn and do what you need to do then you're never going to learn it, so the hands-on experience was really helpful and educational as well," said senior nursing student Mariah Lerakis.
This was the first time Kent State Trumbull hosted the Stop the Bleed event, but they say it won't be their last.
"We are going to offer something in the summer and we hope to offer more programs in the fall for anybody in the community including high schoolers or families because even children can learn to stop the bleed," said senior lecturer Alice Colwell.