EMS

First responders “attempted life saving measures” until EMS officers arrived, police said.

It names Frontken and Northeast as top picks, and prefers Aurelius Technologies within the EMS space.

About a year earlier, the EMS service in Kirkpatrick’s North Carolina county had begun a blood-transfusion program, administering blood to the most critical patients before they arrived at a hospital.

The proportion of EMS agencies that offer these programs remains tiny, but the number has increased dramatically in the past several years.

One recent review of EMS data suggests that if prehospital blood were universally available, more than 20,000 lives would have been saved over the four-year study period.