Stop the Bleed in Calgary

Delta's instructor is certified by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma to teach the ACS Stop the Bleed Course. That certification is current and runs to the end of 2027.

We have also applied to become an ACS training centre, which is a separate thing and still with them. It is not what decides whether we can teach you: the instructor certification is.

What we do not have yet is a date. There is no public session in the calendar, and we would rather leave this page honest than invent one. Tell us you want it and we will schedule it, and a workplace asking for a group session is the quickest way to make that happen.

Severe bleeding kills faster than an ambulance can arrive. That is the whole premise. Someone with an arterial bleed in a limb can be beyond help in a handful of minutes, which is less time than it takes to get a unit to most addresses in this city, and the only people who can change that are the ones already in the room.

Bleeding control training is deliberately short and deliberately narrow. It is built for people with no clinical background: teachers, receptionists, site workers, event staff, parents. Pressure, packing and tourniquets, practised until the hands know it, with nothing else competing for the time.

It is not a first aid certificate and it is not trying to be one. It teaches a few things properly to people who may only ever need a few things.

There are two parts, and only one of them happens with us. The interactive portion is hosted by the American College of Surgeons on their own site, and we will send you straight to it. We are not permitted to copy that material onto our website or into our learning platform, and we do not.

The hands on part is the part worth paying for and the part you cannot get from a screen. That happens in a room in Calgary with a certified instructor, with real tourniquets and packing trainers, repeated until it is muscle memory rather than a memory of a video.

Your certificate comes from the American College of Surgeons, not from Delta. We are the people who teach you and sign you off.

This is the course that makes most sense as a group booking. A site that wants twenty people trained in bleeding control is a single session, on your premises if you would rather, and it is a short enough class that it does not cost you a production day.

Sites with machinery, blades, glass or vehicle traffic are the obvious ones. So are schools, arenas and offices, where the risk is lower but the distance to help is exactly the same.

Use the form below with rough numbers and a location and we will come back with what a session looks like.

Bleeding control is one skill, and it sits inside a bigger picture that most people also need. If you have no first aid training at all, this is a good thing to add rather than a good thing to start with.

Basic First Aid covers severe bleeding inside a one day workplace certificate, next to CPR, choking and calling EMS. Intermediate First Aid goes further and adds the patient assessment that tells you which problem you are actually looking at. Both are Canadian Red Cross certificates and both have dates open now.

Worth knowing about scope, because it catches people out. Tourniquets are taught in both child care first aid courses, Basic First Aid, and every course above them. Wound packing is not part of a first aid certificate at any level: it comes from separate training like this course, and your employer still has to approve you to do it. Holding the card is not the same as being authorized to use it.