Session Learning Objectives

Those attending this session will receive information that should allow them to:

• Explain the literature and science behind balanced blood-based resuscitation;
• Define the science behind patient criteria necessary to transfuse blood prehospital and discuss any need for changes;
• Analyze the demographics, epidemiology, and accounting of whole blood throughout various EMS systems, urban/suburban/rural; and
• Discuss research discussing physiologic parameters, morbidity, and mortality comparing whole blood to crystalloids