Collaboration is Key for National Preparedness: The Hospital's Role in Whole Blood Rotation Models
Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Publication Date
12-31-2025
Abstract
Excerpt: Pre-hospital whole blood (PHWB) transfusion has rapidly expanded across the United States (US) over the last decade, with more than 300 agencies now carrying low-titer O positive whole blood (LTOpWB). These programs, spanning private, public, and hybrid systems, have markedly improved outcomes for patients with life-threatening hemorrhage.1 However, those agencies with PHWB transfusion only correlate to roughly 1.3% of the nearly23,000 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies that exist in the US.
Source Publication
Transfusion (ISSN 0041-1132 | eISSN 1537-2995)
Recommended Citation
Bowers, A., Braverman, M., Baines, E., Epley, E., & Jenkins, D. (2025). Collaboration is key for national preparedness: The hospital’s role in whole blood rotation models. Transfusion, trf.70032. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.70032
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Co-author A. Bowers (at time of publication) is co-affiliated with the Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio