Bleeding control kits to be launched in Liverpool nightspots
Special bleeding control kits designed to save the lives of stabbing victims are to be placed in pubs and nightclubs around Liverpool.
The packs, which contain scissors, gloves, tourniquets and a chest wound sealant, have been launched as part of a safety campaign led by a surgeon.
Nikhil Misra said new ideas were needed to fight the “epidemic” of knife crime.
There have been 48 stabbings in Merseyside this year, of which four were fatal.
Mr Misra is a consultant trauma surgeon at Aintree Hospital, home to the major trauma centre that serves Merseyside and Cheshire.
He came up with the treatment kits, called KnifeSavers, after seeing cases of serious knife crime rise year-on-year.