There was a danger of victims bleeding to death before medical help arrives if people follow the normal protocols Rui Vieira/PAFirst aid courses could be updated to teach the public to deal with the types of injury caused by terrorist attacks. Experts said that there was a danger of victims with stab, gunshot or bomb wounds bleeding to death before medical help could arrive if people simply followed normal first-aiding protocols. A team of military and civilian doctors at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham have created an app called citizenAID that people can keep on their phones, offering advice on what to do and how best to help if there is an active gunman or knife attacker, or a suspected or exploded bomb. Colonel Peter Mahoney, co-author of citizenAID, said: “It is a distillation of our hard-won experience, particularly from Iraq and Afghanistan, where we were…

Source: The Times June 05, 2017 23:58 UTC