Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...

EMS educators are introducing four new realistic patient assessment scenarios to better prepare EMT and paramedic students for the unpredictable nature of field emergencies. The cases, including an ...

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 ...

James Sprunt Community College in Duplin County, N.C., held a mass casualty disaster drill simulating a structural collapse, engaging fire, EMS, and nursing students in realistic emergency response.

Severely injured patients are more likely to survive if they are initially treated by an emergency medical services (EMS) clinician who sees a high number of trauma patients, rather than a clinician ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When someone is losing blood from a gunshot wound or serious car crash, minutes count. Now, Cleveland trauma victims have a better chance of survival, thanks to new initiatives aimed ...

The National EMS Academy in Lafayette has graduated a new class of Emergency Medical Technicians. These graduates are equipped with essential skills to provide critical care in their communities. The ...

(TNS) — Arlington’s first responders can now provide whole blood to trauma victims, a significant upgrade in the standard of care for patients who have suffered blood loss. Whole blood is blood from a ...

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 ...

Private vehicle transport is linked to a significantly lower likelihood of death compared with ground EMS transport for trauma patients, according to a study in JAMA Surgery. Researchers studied data ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Berkeley County EMS is launching a new program that will allow paramedics to give trauma patients blood transfusions before they reach the hospital — a step leaders say ...