The Ventura County Fire Department has started equipping a few of its ambulances with whole blood. Here's why.

The emergency blood transfusion program enables firefighter-paramedics to stabilize severely injured patients before arriving ...

In a landmark moment for emergency medical services, Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) paramedics assigned to Rescue ...

A stabbing in Oxnard led to California's first in-the-field whole blood transfusion, Ventura County fire officials say.

Metro Emergency Management Services will start a first-of-its-kind life-saving program in Kentucky. But to make the seconds count, paramedics will rely on the American Red Cross Kentucky Region to ...

Monongalia EMS will begin the program on May 1. Dr. Michael Shukis, Mon EMS medical director, said there has been a nationwide effort to return whole blood programs. The chances of surviving a ...

The Kenosha Fire Department is breaking new ground in emergency care, becoming the first fire-based EMS service in Wisconsin to carry blood on all of its front-line ambulances.

County Division of Fire and Rescue Services has a new system to make whole blood transfusions available at the scene of accidents or before going to the hospital. Whole blood is what flows in the ...