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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

On Jan. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began counting any administration of blood during ambulance prehospital transport as an “advanced life support, level 2” (ALS2) service ...

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.