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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (7News) — The D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department had never performed a blood transfusion in the field until last year when they saved a woman who was shot more than one ...
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 ...
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 ...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Two Johnson County trauma survivors were reunited with the EMS professionals, firefighters and trauma teams who played essential roles in saving their lives after tragic ...
CLEVELAND — It’s a first in major Ohio cities and it could be a game changer in saving lives. Cleveland EMS paramedics are now able to give blood transfusions on the scene of trauma emergencies. “It's ...
LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Michelle Houck, the trauma outreach coordinator at Trident Health, was named Emergency Nurse of the Year by the South Carolina EMS Association. Trident Health announced on ...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — In the three weeks since South Metro Fire Rescue started carrying blood in the field, the agency has already given blood to three patients. On Aug. 21, SMFR announced its ...
Susquehanna Regional EMS (SREMS) has been selected by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) as the recipient of the 2025 Dick Ferneau Career EMS Service of the Year Award, ...
I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...