Aaron Jacobs sits comfortably in a donation chair at WellSpan's Apple Hill Medical Center, extending his arm as a medical ...

Less than one week after the program started, emergency blood transfusions in the field by Ventura County Fire Department ...

If people need more immediate treatment, a healthcare professional may suggest medication or in-hospital treatment, such as a blood transfusion or bone marrow transplant. The rate at which a ...

In a landmark moment for emergency medical services, Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) paramedics assigned to Rescue Ambulance 50 administered the first-ever prehospital whole blood transfusion in ...

A stabbing victim in Oxnard was saved by California’s first-ever field blood transfusion, officials confirmed. Crews with the Ventura County Fire Department, along with Oxnard firefighters and ...

If you have diabetes or high blood sugar, you probably know some of the things that cause your glucose (another name for blood sugar) to go up. Like a meal with too many carbohydrates, or not ...

PTP is characterized by the development of severe, sudden and self-limiting thrombocytopenia occurring 5-10 days after a blood transfusion. The recipients always have a history of sensitization ...

It has now been introduced so that loyal blood donors can get free transfusion privileges for their close and immediate family. The National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has unveiled this important ...

This is tested for the mutations causing thalassemia. It also vital that affected children are cared for with safe blood transfusion and affordable chelation.

In more severe cases, a patient’s fluid volume could be replaced - in some cases this would include blood transfusion - and the patient had further surgery. White said complications resulting in ...

The Ventura County Fire Department has launched an emergency blood transfusion program, equipping its first rescue ambulances with whole blood that officials say could help save lives. In the ...