Angelo Ciaraglia, Erika Brigmon, Maxwell Braverman, Emily Kidd, C J Winckler, Eric Epley, Jose Flores, John Barry, Daniel DeLeon, Elizabeth Waltman, Brian Eastridge, Ronald Stewart, Lillian Liao, Susannah Nicholson, Donald Jenkins
INTRODUCTION: Firearm-related deaths have become the leading cause of death in adolescents and children. Since the Sutherland Springs, TX mass casualty incident (MCI), the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC) for trauma instituted a prehospital whole blood (WB) program and blood deployment program for MCI's. METHODS: The program was adopted statewide by the Texas Emergency Medical Task Force (EMTF), of which STRAC is the lead for EMTF-8. The recent active shooter MCI in Uvalde, TX was the first time the MCI blood deployment program had been utilized...
August 31, 2022: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery