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When someone is bleeding

For people in the United States when someone is bleeding: a knife that slipped, a broken glass, a fall, a crash, a dog bite, a nosebleed that won’t stop, a child’s split lip, blood where there shouldn’t be any. For the person who is hurt, and for whoever is beside them. Is this a 911 bleed? Press hard. Packing and tourniquets. Cuts and scrapes. Nosebleeds. Mouth, teeth and fingertips. Bites and scratches. Bleeding you can’t see. The days after. Before the next one. And the words to say when you call. No quiz and no score. One thing at a time.

This page and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). The facts come from pages read on October 2, 2026: the U.S. Department of Defense’s STOP THE BLEED® program (its front page, About, Training, Equipment, and STOP THE BLEED® Equipment: What to Know Before You Buy; the site calls the department the Department of War); the American College of Surgeons’ ACS Stop the Bleed (its front page, Get Trained, About and FAQ); the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Dogs, from Healthy Pets, Healthy People; Rabies Prevention and Control; Preventing Rabies from Bats; and About Tetanus); the American Academy of Pediatrics, on HealthyChildren.org (How to Stop a Nosebleed; First Aid for Bites or Cuts to a Child’s Tongue or Lip; First Aid for a Knocked-Out Permanent Tooth; and Fingertip Injuries); the American Academy of Dermatology (How to treat minor cuts); MedlinePlus, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (the summaries on its health topic pages Bleeding, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Wounds and Injuries, and Animal Bites); and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Bleeding Disorders). The descriptions of the 988 Lifeline and Crisis Text Line are from their own front pages, read earlier the same day for our other pages. MedlinePlus’s medical encyclopedia pages on bleeding, cuts and puncture wounds, nosebleeds and human bites were read, but their text is licensed from A.D.A.M., whose notice forbids copying it and using it with AI, so the page takes no wording from them and only links to MedlinePlus. Because of that, a few common first steps (keep pressing through a soaked cloth, leave a stuck object in place, lay a fainting person down) are marked “Ours”: our own suggestions, not a source’s. Several pages we asked for returned “page not found” (among them Ready.gov’s Until Help Arrives page and three guessed HealthyChildren.org addresses), so they are not used; the Department of Homeland Security’s Stop the Bleed page is now marked as archived, so it is not used either. We did not read any first aid manual or course material, any clinical guideline, any state law, or the research behind any statement. Where sources say different things, the page reports each: how long to press, antibiotic cream on a cut or bite, tetanus shots after 5 or 10 years, and how long a class takes and what it costs. The page has no questionnaire and gives no score, on purpose. It names no medicine and gives no dose. It quotes no named person and gives no figures for how many people bleed or die; the sources have some, with their context. The times and sizes on the page (minutes of pressure, a quarter inch, 2 cm, 15 minutes for a tooth) are the sources’ own. This page saves nothing: no account, no cookies, nothing you tick is stored or sent, and no analytics (privacy). Scarlet Beast is not a clinic, an ambulance service or a government agency, sells no kits or classes, and takes no money from anyone named here. English only for now. Found a mistake? Email [email protected].