Click below for each resource:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
THOR – Trauma, Hemostasis and Oxygenation Research
Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB)
Prehospital Blood Transfusion Initiative Coalition (PHBTIC)
- U.S. Prehospital Blood Program Interactive Map | PHBTIC
- Prehospital Blood Transfusion Coalition Clinical Practice Guideline for Civilian EMS
NHTSA – National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Delta Development Team Certifications & Compliance
Supporting Articles, Webinars and Videos:
- Bloodlines – Prehospital Blood | Medical Documentary
- NBC NEWS video – How ex-military surgeons are pushing for laws allowing ambulances
to carry blood - Whole Blood Programs Webinar – Whole Blood Programs in Prehospital Care Guest
Speaker: Eric Bank, Asst Chief of EMS, Harris County ESD 48 (presented by Bound Tree) - American College of Surgeons (ACS) News Conference – Fast Access to Blood Saves Lives-
The Urgent need to make it available to all trauma patients - JEMS article – With Trauma Deaths on the rise, EMS is developing prehospital blood
transfusion programs to improve survival and recovery rates - The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery article – Removing the barriers to
prehospital blood: A roadmap to success - American Association of Critical-Care Nurses article and video – Low Titer O-Positive
Whole Blood: Lessons from the Battlefield for Civilian Rural Hospitals - NAEMSP webinar – Whole Blood in Rural EMS – The Wilkes County EMS Experience
- Transfusion: Volume 65, Issue S1 – A Supplement to TRANSFUSION The THOR Network 2025 Remote Damage Control Resuscitation Supplement
- The Journal of Trauma and Accute Care Surgery – Every minute matters: Improving outcomes for penetrating trauma through prehospital advanced resuscitative care
- Wiley Online Library – Nationwide trends in prehospital blood product use after injury 2020–2023
- Why EMS Needs a Prehospital Blood Management System – by DDT
- Why EMS and Blood Banks Don’t Use Camping Fridges – by DDT
- The Danger of Storing Blood in a Non-Medical Refrigerator – by DDT
- POST-CRASH CARE COUNTERMEASURES: HOW TO SAVE MORE LIVES (EMS.gov)
- Prehospital blood transfusion coalition core competencies for emergency medical services personnel – BMJ Jourals