Significant bleeding due to traumatic injury is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the U.S., with the majority of deaths occurring within six hours. Emerging evidence suggests that the ...

Use of whole blood products to save egregiously injured U.S. military combatants became a practice during wars in Iraq and ...

When someone gives blood, the donation is usually separated into components to use for specific needs. But in some cases, a ...

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 ...

Four months after suffering a near-fatal motorcycle accident on CO 67 N., 72-year-old Guy Theriot attributes his recovery to receiving whole blood in the ambulance. Speaking during a press conference ...

Mike Toole is the managing editor for CBS Boston. He has worked in the WBZ-TV newsroom for more than 20 years. He previously wrote and produced news and sports at WABC-TV in New York. Last Saturday, a ...

The Clark County Fire Department is marking a major milestone in emergency medical care, aimed at saving more trauma patients ...

It took 45 minutes for firefighters to get a 35-year-old man out of a “heavily damaged” car following a car crash on Saturday, officials said. The man’s injuries were extensive, with low blood ...

(Boston)—Significant bleeding due to traumatic injury is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the U.S., with the majority of deaths occurring within six hours. Emerging evidence suggests that ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham The use of whole blood rather than component blood products has been driven by military experience in battlefield medicine. Hospital is among the first medical ...

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 ...