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, ...

Dr. Maia Dorsett on why complete vital signs and avoiding TBI complications matter more than rare “sexy” procedures ...

Motivation: Upon arrival on the scene, EMT-B's sometimes mistake dramatic fractures for life threatening injuries. The intent of this drill is to remind rescuers that extremity trauma rarely causes a ...

Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a three-part series on medical transportation and EMS. Read the second part, "Equipping EMS." Emergency medical technicians, first responders and ...

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 ...

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.

BRATTLEBORO — Faultline Ensemble, a group of artists and health workers, invites all for a live, continuing education performance about rural EMS providers struggling with and finding paths through ...

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 ...

Summit Fire & EMS and Red, White & Blue Fire emergency medical crews now carry “whole blood” to administer to trauma patients thanks to grant funding for a new program. A grant from the National ...