University of Washington School of Medicine researchers are participating in a clinical trial to understand whether trauma victims would benefit from a transfusion of whole blood during prehospital resuscitation. In the study, patients in hemorrhagic shock will be randomized to receive type O-positive low-titer whole blood instead of current standard therapy, red blood cells and plasma, during air transport to the hospital.
New clinical trial to study in-flight whole blood transfusion
University of Washington School of Medicine researchers are participating in a clinical trial to understand whether trauma victims would benefit from a transfusion of whole blood during prehospital resuscitation. In the study, patients in hemorrhagic shock will be randomized to receive type O-positive low-titer whole blood instead of current standard therapy, red blood cells and plasma, during air transport to the hospital.