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Student-run EMS at UW-Madison? Fire, police leaders not sold yet

Genevieve Simmons grimaced the more Mitch Reuter tightened a tourniquet around her arm.

“Definitely don’t have a pulse,” Simmons chuckled as Reuter checked her wrist.

Reuter was demonstrating how to use a tourniquet as he led a Stop the Bleed training last month at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students filled a classroom in Birge Hall to learn how to pack a wound and apply pressure in a medical emergency.