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Wilson County EMS outlines trauma survivability initiative centered on prehospital whole blood and ultrasound
Summary
Deputy EMS Director Califf Ward presented a trauma survivability initiative funded by a $100,000 responsive grant from the Health Care Foundation of Wilson to implement prehospital whole blood, point-of-care ultrasound and app-based clinical decision tools across county EMS units.
Wilson County Deputy Emergency Medical Services Director Califf Ward presented the county’s trauma survivability initiative at the Board of Commissioners meeting on Oct. 6, saying the program is designed to bring lifesaving care to critically injured patients earlier in the prehospital setting.
Ward said the county analyzed a 2023 cohort of traumatic-injury patients and found about 20% of those patients would have met criteria for a prehospital whole blood transfusion. He told commissioners, “for every 1 minute delay that a patient has that need blood, there’s about…
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