Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services (CCFES) performed the county's first-ever pre-hospital blood transfusion on a trauma patient. The transfusion involved administering red blood cells and fresh ...

Use of whole blood products to save egregiously injured U.S. military combatants became a practice during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and even before those conflicts, according to experts. Whole ...

Hennepin Healthcare is seeking permission to enroll car-crash victims and other traumatic-injury patients who are too injured to provide informed consent in a clinical trial of two drugs that reduce ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. – Uncontrolled blood loss from traumatic injury is the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield, which makes prompt and accurate triage essential for maximizing ...

When a patient is suffering a trauma that results in massive blood loss, focusing on stopping the bleeding first and then moving to restore the airway second is the best method for patient outcomes, ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A new Milwaukee County program gives first responders at the scene of a traumatic event a new tool at their disposal. The pilot program was created to administer blood to trauma ...

People in Fairfield County, Connecticut, who are being transported by American Medical Response ambulances can now receive blood transfusions on their way to the hospital. Medical professionals say it ...

Parker County Hospital District EMS field training officer Jordan Tolliver (right) exchanged units of blood with Craig Denny of Carter BloodCenter. Protocols to return blood nearing expiration to the ...

A team of researchers has made a significant breakthrough that could save countless lives in emergencies involving severe blood loss. Their new treatment involves activating a protein called PKC-ε ...