Traumatic injuries are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are the second most burdensome health care expense in the nation. Trauma can affect anyone. Whether it is a fall, gun violence or a car crash, someone in the U.S. dies every three minutes from a trauma related injury. Our outreach program is dedicated to providing injury prevention education, awareness and strategies to prevent unintentional injuries and deaths.
Penn's Injury Prevention and Outreach Program participates in research, safety education and training for teenagers to adults. Our priority is to prevent injury before it happens to the residents of Philadelphia and the surrounding communities. As a Level 1, Regional Resource Trauma Center we conduct educational workshops and presentations about trauma awareness and injury prevention to the public. To schedule a presentation or event, email Sunny.Jackson@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Penn Trauma Prevention Resources
Penn's Trauma Center encourages the general public to learn more about trauma prevention. Resources from the American Trauma Society-PA division are full of helpful information for audiences such as schools, scouts, senior citizen complexes and churches.
Learn more about Trauma prevention from these resources:
Stop the Bleed Campaign
Bleeding injuries are the second leading cause of trauma related deaths in the country. Studies have shown that uncontrolled blood loss was the leading cause of preventable death among troops who died on the battlefield or in military treatment facilities. Excessive and uncontrolled bleeding can result in death in less than five minutes, often before trained responders are on the scene.
Penn's Level 1 Trauma Center is part of a nationwide campaign, Stop the Bleed, to empower individuals to act quickly and save lives. The Stop the Bleed Campaign provides education to the local Philadelphia community with basic tools and information on the simple steps that can be taken in an emergency situation to stop life-threatening blood loss.
Penn Medicine's first Stop the Bleed event was held at Lincoln Financial Field, and provided more than 250 school nurses with hands-on training on how to stem bleeding through proper application of tourniquets, gauze packs or bandages, and safely open an airway.
Since the nationwide launch of the campaign in 2015, organizations and businesses across the country including the American Heart Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American Red Cross, and even airports, have signed on to teach civilians basic lifesaving techniques. In addition to offering training for the public, campaign supporters are working to make tourniquets and bleeding control kits commonplace in schools, stadiums, airports, malls and other places to reduce casualties from mass attacks and bombings.
To learn more about Stop the Bleed, email InjuryPrevention@uphs.upenn.edu.
Injury Prevention Educational Materials
To learn more about injury prevention, visit our Penn Medicine Level 1 Trauma Center YouTube playlist to watch videos on safety tips.
Learn more about injury, accident and violence prevention:
Accidents and Falls:
Home Safety:
Violence:
Driving Safety: