How to control
bleeding from a
knife wound.
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The KnifeSavers app, the only tool worth carrying.
Learn how to control major bleeding from knife wounds, with instructions from specialist trauma surgeons, doctors and nurses.
The techniques on bleeding control are presented in a straightforward, no frills visual style. The app can be used in a real time emergency situation, where a step by step guide shows you how to control major bleeding.
The number of knife-related homicides went from 272 in 2007 to 186 in 2015. Since then it's risen every year, with a steep increase in 2017-18, when there were 285 killings, the highest figure since 1946.
KnifeSavers is a not-for-profit organisation, aiming to empower and educate the general public to deal with life threatening bleeding caused by knife injuries, through our specialist ‘Bleeding Control Kits”, national education programme, and our step-by-step smartphone app.
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Make sure you are safe. Call 999.
Where is the bleeding coming from? Find the wound.
Press hard with 2 hands.
Make sure you are safe, and
there is no danger. Then:
Open and remove the
clothing over the wound
so you can clearly see the
wound where the bleeding
is coming from.
Keep pressing until the
medics arrive.
Then press firmly for 2 minutes.
Tell the victim that this will hurt.
