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Paramedics and ER doctors say field whole-blood transfusion helped save San Antonio officer
Summary
A City of San Antonio paramedic and an ER attending at Brooke Army Medical Center described on-the-scene care and hospital resuscitation after an officer was shot on Oct. 19, 2023; witnesses testified that an emergency rendezvous to obtain whole blood reversed rapidly declining vital signs.
A San Antonio paramedic and an emergency department physician told jurors on Nov. 3 that rapid field care and an emergency whole-blood transfusion were critical to saving an officer shot in October 2023.
James Campbell, a City of San Antonio paramedic who said he was the lead medic on scene, described arriving to an “officer down” call and finding the officer with a through-and-through wrist wound and a major gunshot wound to the right leg. Campbell said the leg injury caused massive bleeding, that tourniquets were applied, and that the officer’s condition deteriorated quickly: an initial blood pressure reading of 85/51 and a pulse of…
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