NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - At the height of the pandemic last year, paramedics in New York City responded to more than 7,000 calls a day. The amount of trauma they witnessed was a heavy burden many are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arlington’s EMS can now provide pre-hospital whole blood to patients who have suffered blood loss. Just about 300 of the nation’s ...
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 ...
Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...
Those are the first words Keedysville resident Scott Spitnale said come to mind when he thinks of his wife, Laura, and all the emergency workers, from the Washington County 911 call center to 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.
The American Red Cross donor center in D.C. is named for a famous Washingtonian, Dr. Charles Drew who pioneered methods for long term storage of blood plasma and was the first director of the American ...
If you or someone you love is injured, I hope you are comforted to know some of the very best emergency medical care is available close to home. When a trauma occurs, minutes count, and at Reading ...
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 ...
SGMC Health EMS launched its prehospital blood transfusion program on Monday, March 30.
We are excited to announce that the Texas EMS for Children Program (EMSC) is collaborating with the DSHS EMS Trauma Systems Section to continue the Texas Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Education ...