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Four questions, live numbers

§Worksheet

What is better training worth? Four questions. Your numbers on screen before we ask for anything.

01 · Who are you training?
02 · About how many people do you train at a time?
20

A rough estimate is fine.

03 · How often do you run this training?
04 · What are you training on today?

Answer a question to see numbers.

6.1 Computed values

Answer the four questions above and we'll size a package for you. It takes about a minute, and nothing is sent anywhere.

6.2 Against your current baseline

BaselineReps availableHigh-quality reps
Nothing / on each other / improvisedEffectively unlimitedNone. The instructor has to make the call
Anatomical propUnlimitedNone. Nothing responds
Responsive limb trainerLimited by stationsYes, but the same wound every time
Full-body simulatorOne stationYes, but about 1.2 per trainee in a 20-person class
RDMT, 6 stations144 per class7.2 per trainee, across 3 different wounds

6.3a What hands-on practice does

12% → 92%

In a published study, about 12% of ordinary people could correctly apply a tourniquet before hands-on training. After it: 92%. Watching a video doesn't do that. Practicing on equipment that responds does.

6.3b And the skill fades

40%

of trainees could no longer apply a tourniquet six months after a one-time course.

Bleeding control isn't learned once. It's kept with regular, realistic reps, which is what more stations and more hands-on time per trainee buy.

6.3c The bar this purchase has to clear

0.2%

The federal government values one life at $14,100,000.

If our training equipment creates even a 0.2% chance of preventing a single death, this package has paid for itself.

For scale: in the study above, hands-on practice moved the share of people who could stop the bleed by 80 percentage points. The bar here is 0.2%.

6.4 The evidence

Bleeding is what kills people who could have been saved.

Of battlefield deaths that doctors later judged survivable, more than 9 in 10 were from bleeding that wasn't stopped in time.

Tourniquets work.

Civilians who got a tourniquet before reaching the hospital were about 6 times more likely to survive.

This training is required, and it never stops.

The military requires recertification every 3 years, or within 12 months of deploying. More than 1.5 million civilians have been through Stop the Bleed since 2017.

  1. Petrone et al., The American Surgeon, 2023: correct tourniquet placement rose from 12.8% to 92.3% among civilians (17.4% to 94.8% among security personnel) after hands-on Stop the Bleed training.
  2. Weinman, Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2020: 39% of trainees were unable to apply a tourniquet successfully six months after a bleeding-control course; mean skill scores fell from 100% to 69%.
  3. Eastridge et al., Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2012: 976 of 4,596 deaths (2001–2011) judged potentially survivable; 90.9% from uncontrolled hemorrhage.
  4. Teixeira et al., Journal of the American College of Surgeons, May 2018: adjusted odds ratio 5.86 for survival with prehospital tourniquet use in peripheral vascular injury.
  5. U.S. Department of Defense TCCC certification requirement.
  6. American College of Surgeons, Stop the Bleed program.
  7. HHS ASPE, Standard Values for Regulatory Analysis, 2026 guidance (2025 dollars).
  8. SGLI maximum coverage $500,000 plus death gratuity $100,000.
  9. CDC MMWR, State-Level Economic Costs of Fatal Injuries, United States, 2019.

6.5 Funding path

Select who you train (question 01) for funding guidance specific to your organization.

6.6 Adjust these numbers

6.7 Email me this brief

A one-page PDF of the numbers you just built, ready to forward to a chief, commander, or department head. It is not a quote.

6.8 Request official quote

Formal pricing on your package, prepared by our team. The document your purchasing office can act on.

Quantities stay editable in the form.