Cy-Fair Fire Department supervisor vehicles will now be equipped with whole blood for patients experiencing rapid blood loss from trauma.
The department began providing pre-hospital whole blood for patients at the point of injury on Jan. 6, a collaboration with Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center.
Justin Reed, assistance chief of EMS for CFFD, said the project has been three years in the making with GCRBC.
âThe partnership was the most important thing to getting this off the ground and seeing it through to the finish line,â he said. âWe have to make sure weâre good stewards of that and so working with Gulf Coast and having a collaborative dialogue explaining âthis is what we can project,â âthis is what we can provide,â and making sure everything we do is not just because itâs the flashy new thing but because itâs going to make a difference in our community.â
