6 Memorial Medical Milestones • 2025 Issue 1 Helping first responders stop the bleed As SWLA’s only trauma center, our dedicated team takes the responsibility for providing injury prevention education to the community, as well as providing high-level training to medical professionals and members of the community responsible for the provision of trauma care. Thanks to the supporters of The Foundation at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital’s Trauma Fund, over 500 combat application tourniquets were donated to first responders in 2024. “We focused on supplying highquality, safe tourniquets to agencies that are located further away from our trauma center,” explains Scott Kyle, Director of Emergency Management and Injury Prevention at Lake Charles Memorial Health System. Recipients included industry partners, several law enforcement agencies and volunteer fire departments in the area. “The use of a tourniquet, before getting a patient to the hospital, can make a significant difference in the outcome of treatment,” Scott says. “Because of the community’s support for heart Call 911
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