SLS 20RS-1238 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 62
BY SENATOR MILLIGAN
SCHOOLS. Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to implement
a traumatic injury response program in all public schools.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, through the
3 state Department of Education, to develop and implement a traumatic injury response
4 program to ensure that each city, parish, or other local public school in the state is
5 prepared to respond to a traumatic injury emergency.
6 WHEREAS, uncontrolled hemorrhage is a leading cause of preventable traumatic
7 deaths; and
8 WHEREAS, the first step to saving lives is stopping the bleed; and
9 WHEREAS, research has shown that bystanders, with little or no medical training,
10 can become heroic lifesavers; and
11 WHEREAS, improving public awareness about how to stop severe bleeding can
12 become the beginning of the trauma care chain of survival and make the difference between
13 life and death for an injured person; and
14 WHEREAS, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Defense, the American
15 College of Surgeons developed the "Stop the Bleed" program and May 2020, is "National
16 Stop the Bleed Month"; and
17 WHEREAS, providing appropriate stop the bleed training and trauma kits in public
18 schools could empower appropriate school personnel to help in a bleeding emergency before
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2 WHEREAS, a traumatic injury response program should require that:
3 (1) Bleeding control kits are placed in easily accessible locations in designated rooms
4 in each school.
5 (2) A bleeding control kit contain at least one tourniquet, one compression bandage,
6 one bleeding control bandage, one marker, one pair of scissors, one pair of protective latex-
7 free gloves, and instructional documents such as those developed by the "Stop the Bleed"
8 national awareness campaign of the United States Department of Homeland Security or the
9 American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
10 (3) The use of bleeding control kits be incorporated into each school's emergency
11 plans and that all school drills include practice on how to use the kits.
12 (4) Each school designate and train employees who are reasonably expected to
13 respond to traumatic injuries and use a bleeding control kit.
14 (5) Each bleeding control kit is annually inspected to ensure that the materials in the
15 kit are in workable order and not past the marked expiration date.
16 (6) The bleeding control kit is inspected and restocked after each use.
17 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
18 urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, through the state
19 Department of Education, to develop and implement a traumatic injury response program
20 to ensure that each city, parish, or other local public school in the state is prepared to respond
21 to a traumatic injury emergency.
22 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
23 president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state
24 superintendent of education.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cheryl Serrett.
DIGEST
SCR 62 Original 2020 Regular Session Milligan
Requests 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
in a traumatic injury emergency.
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