Giving whole blood or the component parts of blood are equally effective options for paramedics and emergency medical technicians to use in treating patients with severe, traumatic bleeding before arriving at the hospital, ...
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A new international study published in eClinicalMedicine has mapped global blood transfusion practices for life-threatening abdominal injuries, highlighting significant variation in care worldwide and opportunities for health ...
Mar 4, 2026
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Strapped to a stretcher in the back of an ambulance, the shooting victim moaned, then screamed. Blood splattered across the person's cheeks and neck, seeped through the gauze looped around a leg and dripped onto the floor.
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Traumatically injured women are considerably less likely to receive whole blood transfusions within the first four hours of injury compared to men, despite whole blood being associated with reduced mortality in both women ...
Apr 11, 2025
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Our nation's ability to treat the patients who require blood on any given day—from victims of mass-casualty events to those undergoing treatment for cancer—is in serious peril, according to a new viewpoint paper, "The Bloody ...
Mar 1, 2024
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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 transfusion of whole blood ...
Jan 31, 2024
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