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Wilkes University Department of Public Safety Partners on Trauma and Injury Prevention Training

Wilkes-Barre, PA (03/28/2018) — Contact information: Gabrielle D'Amico, director of communications, gabrielle.damico@wilkes.edu, 570-408-4510

The Wilkes University Department of Public Safety offered trauma and injury prevention training in partnership with Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Fifteen Wilkes public safety officers, as well as 13 police officers from Wilkes-Barre and Kingston Borough completed "Stop the Bleeding" training on March 23 in the university's Henry Student Center.

The course addressed how officers can provide immediate bleeding control in an emergency situation. It is designed as a train-the-trainer seminar, allowing attendees to share bleeding-control tactics across police departments and in their communities.

Blood loss is the leading cause of preventable death in multiple casualty events like mass shootings, terrorist attacks and weather related events. Rapid control of bleeding at the scene can be life saving.

"This is part of our all-hazards approach to delivering critical emergency services to the Wilkes community and surrounding area," said Christopher Jagoe, chief of the Wilkes University Department of Public Safety. "Our officers have, and will continue to train in responding to critical incidents such as an active shooting event. In doing so, we must also prepare our first responders to safely intervene, control bleeding and save lives."

Wilkes has previously offered active shooter training for area law enforcement as well as members of the campus community.

About Wilkes University:

Wilkes University is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, the university is on a mission to create one of the great small universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large, research university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small, liberal arts college, at a cost that is increasingly competitive with public universities. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 43 bachelor's degree programs, Wilkes offers 25 master's degree programs and five doctoral/terminal degree programs, including the doctor of philosophy in nursing, doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education, doctor of pharmacy, and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at www.wilkes.edu.

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