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 ...

NEMSQA’s latest measures report finds that routine, high-frequency actions like preventing hypoxia in TBI and timely trauma alerts drive outcomes more than rarely performed procedures ...

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 ...

Arlington’s EMS can now provide pre-hospital whole blood to patients who have suffered blood loss. Just about 300 of the nation’s 23,000 EMS agencies carry whole blood. Medical City Arlington ...

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.

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — In the first half of life, more Americans die from traumatic injuries and violence than from any other cause —including cancer, HIV or the flu. A group of medical professionals ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Metro Emergency Services hosted a fall blood drive Tuesday to provide a critical resource for trauma victims. The drive was held at the EMS headquarters on ...

In the wake of a toddler's tragic death near Willow Grove Open Space in the Colorado Town of Silverthorne, the profound sense of grief is extending beyond the family to the emergency responders who ...

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 ...

WE’LL SEE IN A BIT. ZANE THANKS. TWO METRO AREA EMS DEPARTMENTS ARE NOW PART OF A COLLABORATION TO HELP SAVE LIVES, USING WHAT STATE OFFICIALS SAY IS A PILOT PROGRAM. IT’S EQUIPPING DES MOINES AND ...

YORK, Pa. — Medical residents at WellSpan York Hospital traded scrubs for sirens Tuesday during the hospital’s 18th annual EMS Skills Day. The event, held at the York County Fire School, gave ...