And that’s especially true when trauma and severe blood loss are involved. Trauma is the leading cause of death for people 45 and younger, and among trauma patients, uncontrolled bleeding is the ...

Working to save the lives of military personnel suffering massive blood loss in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, United States military trauma surgeons developed a blood transfusion protocol that is ...

Research shows geomapping can pinpoint trauma hotspots, optimizing prehospital blood supply deployment and potentially saving ...

An international panel of experts co-chaired by Jeffrey Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, developed guidelines for new strategies which could ...

Using data from hospitals and emergency medical service providers to map out areas with the greatest need for trauma care and prehospital whole blood transfusions can enable hospital systems to deploy ...

In March, Dr. Ashley Woodrow faced a trying situation — a patient in a remote area of Mount Bethel Township was bleeding out and had gone into hemorrhagic shock. “This happened to be one of those ...

Austin-Travis County EMS has implemented a new plan to quickly deploy blood to the scene of large-scale emergencies, officials announced.The Mass Casualty Incid ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has updated its clinical practice guidelines on patient blood management for those undergoing cardiac surgery. The new recommendations, which were produced in ...

Austin-Travis County EMS and We Are Blood developed a protocol to deliver more whole blood during mass casualty incidents.