Patient volume not tenure drives better survival in severely injured trauma patients treated by EMS clinicians, per UPMC and University of ...

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 ...

Pittsburgh is buying new, high-tech mannequins that will be used by EMS personnel for training. James Dlutowski, the training crew chief for the city’s EMS, said the high-fidelity mannequins will ...

Those are the first words Keedysville resident Scott Spitnale said come to mind when he thinks of his wife, Laura, and all the emergency workers, from the Washington County 911 call center to the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - MetroHealth is teaming up with Cleveland EMS to help save more lives by training paramedics to give whole blood transfusions at trauma scenes using low titer O positive blood.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arlington’s EMS can now provide pre-hospital whole blood to patients who have suffered blood loss. Just about 300 of the nation’s ...

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 ...

Using a large national EMS dataset, the report delivers a data-driven snapshot of clinical, operational and workforce trends ...

(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 ...

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 ...