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 ...

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 ...

NEMSQA’s latest measures report finds that routine, high-frequency actions like preventing hypoxia in TBI and timely trauma alerts drive outcomes more than rarely performed procedures ...

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 ...

Saint Francis Hospital will expand its prehospital whole blood program to a fourth EMS agency, with more than 250 field ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Two Johnson County trauma survivors were reunited with the EMS professionals, firefighters and trauma teams who played essential roles in saving their lives after tragic ...

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.

Arlington’s EMS can now provide pre-hospital whole blood to patients who have suffered blood loss. Just about 300 of the nation’s 23,000 EMS agencies carry whole blood. Medical City Arlington ...

Pittsburgh is buying new, high-tech mannequins that will be used by EMS personnel for training. James Dlutowski, the training crew chief for the city’s EMS, said the high-fidelity mannequins will ...

In the wake of a toddler's tragic death near Willow Grove Open Space in the Colorado Town of Silverthorne, the profound sense of grief is extending beyond the family to the emergency responders who ...

I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...

YORK, Pa. — Medical residents at WellSpan York Hospital traded scrubs for sirens Tuesday during the hospital’s 18th annual EMS Skills Day. The event, held at the York County Fire School, gave ...