Medical First Responder – Fall on Ice
I am a bar bouncer and a medical first responder. It was the first week of
March 2005, it was a busy night at the bar and there was a snow storm. It was
closing time when a woman ran in and said that there was a woman in the parking
lot that was bleeding in the arm. The victim had slipped on the ice and put
her hand through the back window of a parked car.
I got my medic bag and headed out the door. When I arrived, I saw a former
firefighter sprinkling on what looked like sand. The firefighter had just come
back from Iraq. When I asked what he was doing, he told me it was QuikClot®.
I had just read about QuikClot® in a medical supply catalog but never used
it. The women’s bleeding had stopped by the time I arrived. The women
had multiple length wise gashes ranging from 2 to 5 inch on the inside of her
arm.