The Ventura County Fire Department has launched an emergency blood transfusion program, equipping its first rescue ambulances with whole blood that officials say could help save lives. In the ...

Metro Emergency Management Services will start a first-of-its-kind life-saving program in Kentucky. But to make the seconds count, paramedics will rely on the American Red Cross Kentucky Region to ...

The emergency blood transfusion program enables firefighter-paramedics to stabilize severely injured patients before arriving at the hospital. "This program marks a groundbreaking advancement in ...

WASHINGTON — Pioneers of DC Fire and EMS’s Whole Blood Program received some ... April 10 was the first time responders performed an emergency transfusion in the field, saving a gunshot ...

"Without a valid retrospective test, there is a small risk that an emergency blood transfusion could transfer blood-borne diseases from the donor to the recipient without being detected," it said.