For many years, first responders would rush patients with severe blood loss to the hospital for a blood transfusion. But in ...

More and more ambulances carry blood when responding to trauma scenes. Officials say transfusions before patients arrive at the hospital will save lives.

Fayette County Fire and Emergency Services can now give lifesaving blood transfusions in the field. Now, residents won’t have to wait the nearly 40 minutes it takes to reach a trauma center by ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A blood shortage could prove disastrous in life-threatening cases where a patient needs ...

A new pilot program giving Des Moines paramedics the ability to perform blood transfusions in the field is already being credited with saving lives — and changing how trauma care begins.

Medics with Austin Travis-County EMS (ATCEMS) now have a new way of getting blood transfusions to patients as fast as ...