00:05A shark bite trauma kit is a kit that will be attached to the front of every surf club or
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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
00:23shark bite or even a fin chop that you can't control with normal pressure and elevation.
00:32Putting pressure onto that wound straight away however you can and calling triple zero asking
00:39for ambulance. If there's someone else on the beach you can ask them to go to the surf club and
00:43grab
00:44the kit off the wall. A tourniquet is a device that will that you attach above a joint or below
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00:53joint and about five centimeters away from the wound which you will tighten up and lock into place.
01:00Once a tourniquet is in place they don't get removed till they get to hospital and a doctor
01:05started assessing that person. A person going into hypothermia with major blood loss is quite
01:11dangerous and it can lead to shock quite quickly. So keeping them warm, stopping the blood and
01:17calling triple zero and getting ambulance on the way.
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