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Canadian consensus on prehospital transfusion
Best practices on blood and blood products for a prehospital hemorrhage protocol: consensus from the 2025 Canadian prehospital transfusion summit
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine · Added 6 June 2026
Consensus summit with 50+ experts developed 12 statements on prehospital transfusion, identifying RBCs and TXA as foundational, recommending freeze-dried plasma and whole blood for rural settings, and emphasising calcium and hypothermia prevention.
- Study type
- Guideline / statement
- Design
- Structured roundtable consensus summit
- Participants
- Over 50 experts from eight provinces and six services/systems
- Main finding
- 12 consensus statements: red blood cells and tranexamic acid foundational; freeze-dried plasma and whole blood favoured in rural/remote settings; calcium and hypothermia prevention essential
- Caveat
- Expert opinion consensus rather than direct evidence; Canadian context
- Bottom line
- Context only
Learning goal
Weigh the role of whole blood and freeze-dried plasma in remote and rural trauma transfusion.
More
- Topic: Trauma
- Daily scan: 6 June 2026
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