New York Lifts Ban on Air Ambulance Blood Transfusions
New York was the last US state with a ban on aerial transfusions in the helicopters and planes that carry people in desperate need of care.
Very sick or injured people are going to have a better chance of survival under the new law allowing blood transfusions in air ambulance services.
Sometimes air ambulance crew have only a limited range of techniques and medicines because they can’t give blood. That’s now changed.
It will mean the air ambulances will require small changes, to put refrigerators or some other cooler on board to store blood and there will be protocols to cover transfusions. Read more...
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