00:05A shark bite trauma kit is a kit that will be attached to the front of every surf club or
00:11a
00:11part of the building in every surf club in New South Wales which will contain tourniquets,
00:16bandages and things to help stem the bleeding if someone has had a major trauma from either a shark
00:23bite or even a fin chop that you can't control with normal pressure and elevation putting pressure
00:34onto that wound straight away however you can and calling triple zero asking for ambulance if
00:41there's someone else on the beach you can ask him to go to the surf club and grab the kit
00:46off the
00:46wall a tourniquet is a device that will that you attach above a joint or below a joint and about
00:55five centimeters away from the wound which you will tighten up and lock into place once a tourniquet
01:02is in place they don't get removed till they get to hospital and a doctor started assessing that
01:07person tourniquet is much more effective than a leg rope which are quite thin and can cause some damage
01:14to the tissue but if that's what you've got that's what you use they are a life-saving device so
01:22if
01:22we quickly can get a tourniquet onto major bleeding that you can't stop with normal pressure it gives
01:27that person a greater chance of survival person going into hypothermia with major blood loss is
01:33quite dangerous it can lead to shock quite quickly so keeping them warm stopping the blood and calling
01:39triple zero and getting ambulance on the way
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