Making blood immediately available in emergencies

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
• ² Tactical Combat Casualty Care and the DoD Joint Trauma System, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, USA.
• ³ Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• ⁴ South Texas Blood and Tissue, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
• ⁵ Armed Services Blood Program, Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, UTHealth, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
• ⁹ Canadian Forces Health Services, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Defense, Joint Trauma System, US Army, Ft Sam Houston, Texas, USA.