John B Holcomb, Philip C Spinella, Torunn Oveland Apelseth, Frank K Butler, Jeremy W Cannon, Andrew P Cap, Jason B Corley, Heidi Doughty, Michael Fitzpatrick, Sara F Goldkind, Jennifer M Gurney, Mary J Homer, Sarah J Ilstrup, Jan O Jansen, Donald H Jenkins, Marisa B Marques, Eugene E Moore, Paul M Ness, Kevin C O'Connor, Martin A Schreiber, Eilat Shinar, Steve Sloan, Geir Strandenes, James R Stubbs, Audra L Taylor, Kevin R Ward, Elizabeth Waltman, Mark Yazer
BACKGROUND: The current global pandemic has created unprecedented challenges in the blood supply network. Given the recent shortages, there must be a civilian plan for massively bleeding patients when there are no blood products on the shelf. Recognizing that the time to death in bleeding patients is less than 2 h, timely resupply from unaffected locations is not possible. One solution is to transfuse emergency untested whole blood (EUWB), similar to the extensive military experience fine-tuned over the last 19 years...
July 2021: Transfusion