During this month's HUBweek celebration of innovation, STOP THE BLEED was one of the hands-on presentations offered to the public by the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Inside a conference room a brief video suggested "when terror strikes we must consider ourselves to be first responders."
The video mentions specifically the intentional chaos of the October 1 massacre in Las Vegas and the April 2013 Marathon bombings in Boston. Then the narrator notes, regrettably, that these are the times we live in and must be prepared for. After the video presentation hands-on classroom instruction included the basic how-to's of what-to-do when faced with a disaster.
Eight people have died as of Wednesday morning in the terror attack by a 29-year-old Uzbekistan national who has a Green Card. The Newton resident, who works at The Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, is being cared for in a New York City hospital, according to a company spokesman.
