In the military trauma setting, prehospital transfusion (PHT) is a firmly evidenced means to reduce preventable death. It stands to reason that the same would be true in the civilian emergency ...

Prehospital blood is a crucial focus within our country, especially in California, where the LA County Prehospital Blood Transfusion Pilot Program, LA-DROP, recently launched, alongside ...

In what officials are calling a “landmark event,” members of the Canton Fire Department saved a man’s life by administering the first whole blood transfusion in a “prehospital setting ...

Editor’s note: Updated at 8:40 a.m. Friday with the correct name of the national organization creating prehospital blood transfusion standards. An earlier version had the wrong name.

According to the paper, “Although the use of prehospital blood products is standard of care within the deployed Department of Defense trauma system only a limited number (<1 percent) of civilian ...

Last year, when Dallas Fire-Rescue leaders were designing the blood program, they said prehospital blood transfusions could have benefitted nearly 700 injured patients across the city in 2023 alone.

On the evening of April 10, paramedics performed the first blood transfusion in the field, saving the life of a man who was shot in Northeast, according to DC Fire and EMS.

Whole blood transfusion is saving lives — but barriers to adoption remain. By leveraging lessons from successful programs and advocating for funding, EMS leaders can build the necessary ...

In the midst of lights and sirens, on Nov. 21, Wauwatosa first responders performed a first-of-its-kind blood transfusion in Wisconsin — putting a new protocol in Milwaukee County to its first test.