I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...
ATLANTA - A new program has already helped save more than a dozen lives in its first week of implementation in Atlanta. First responders with Grady EMS can now administer blood transfusions in the ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - MetroHealth is teaming up with Cleveland EMS to help save more lives by training paramedics to give whole blood transfusions at trauma scenes using low titer O positive blood.
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Berkeley County EMS is launching a new program that will allow paramedics to give trauma patients blood transfusions before they reach the hospital — a step leaders say ...
(TNS) — Arlington’s first responders can now provide whole blood to trauma victims, a significant upgrade in the standard of care for patients who have suffered blood loss. Whole blood is blood from a ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — In the three ...
On Friday afternoon, Gamecock Emergency Medicine Students hosted LifeNet flight nurses and paramedics for a helicopter landing and pediatrics trauma lecture at Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness ...
HUNTINGTON — Cabell County Emergency Medical Services (CCEMS) is the first in West Virginia to administer blood before patients arrive at the hospital. It’s called the prehospital ground transport ...
WE’LL SEE IN A BIT. ZANE THANKS. TWO METRO AREA EMS DEPARTMENTS ARE NOW PART OF A COLLABORATION TO HELP SAVE LIVES, USING WHAT STATE OFFICIALS SAY IS A PILOT PROGRAM. IT’S EQUIPPING DES MOINES AND ...
Private vehicle transport is linked to a significantly lower likelihood of death compared with ground EMS transport for trauma patients, according to a study in JAMA Surgery. Researchers studied data ...