COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A woman who nearly died in a crash is alive, thanks to a new groundbreaking pre-hospital blood transfusion program in Cobb County. If it weren’t for the blood products paramedics ...
WASHINGTON — Paramedics saved the life of a gunshot victim while responding to a call last month. They did it by giving the patient a blood transfusion while in the field. The man was the first ...
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 ...
One of the two women shot in the 500 block of Bourbon Street late on Nov. 6 was in bad shape when paramedics arrived, Capt. Janick Lewis said. Wounded high in the leg, she was in shock and becoming ...
A stabbing victim in Oxnard was saved by California’s first-ever field blood transfusion, officials confirmed. Crews with the Ventura County Fire Department, along with Oxnard firefighters and police, ...
13 ARE AMONG PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT VACCINATED. METRO EMS JUST CELEBRATED 100 DAYS OF HAVING ACCESS TO BLOOD IN THE FIELD. LOUISVILLE IS THE FIRST AGENCY IN KENTUCKY TO USE BLOOD WHILE TREATING PATIENTS ...
Incident marked state's first whole blood transfusion performed in the field. Dispatch algorithms for the program sent the rescue ambulance to the scene. A stabbing in Oxnard morphed into a noteworthy ...