 On Thursday, May 25th, Pikeville Medical Center paid a visit to Pikeville Fire Department for National Stop the Bleed Day. Our local first responders were trained to handle emergency situations involving people experiencing heavy bleeding as they wait for hospital transportation. PMC trauma outreach injury prevention coordinator Jerry Prater tells us more. So, we're here today to teach Stop the Bleed to our EMS personnel at the Pifal Fire Department because it's very important to learn the different techniques and stay up to date with learning how to prevent people from bleeding out and preventing death because that is the number one cause of preventable death and bleeding is stopping the bleed by direct pressure or packing wounds and using tourniquets. We others always something new to learn out education and different techniques and stuff changes, you know, every day. They go out and do different styles of training and, you know, they even taught me today, you know, a different way that they was taught how to, you know, apply tourniquets and stuff versus, you know, other ways that I was taught. Cancer, it's a very scary word. But an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center, we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. The fire department is happy to work alongside PMC to help protect the community. Additional training means they are now more capable of saving lives. We've partnered with PMC to attend this class and also with some of the people in the community come out to learn how to stop that bleed and save the life and know the knowledge of how to do that process. We have the same knowledge as they have in that trauma center at PMC. So when we do what care we do give, they already know what we're doing out in the field and having a working knowledge of the same as us. So we all on the same page and can save that life a lot more faster than not being organized or being trained. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colm.