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Texas LifeStar Helicopter Now with Blood and Plasma

Northwest Texas Healthcare System LifeStar helicopter serving Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico now approved received approval to carry blood and plasma





Texas LifeStar Helicopter Now with Blood and Plasma
NWTHS, September 13, 2017 - The area’s longest serving critical care air-medical program, LIFESTAR, is excited to announce the addition of blood and plasma carrying capability aboard the LIFESTAR I helicopter for patients needing lifesaving transfusions.

LIFESTAR is a service line of Northwest Texas Healthcare System, serving as the regions transport in the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico.

The blood products are stored and transported in an insulated transport cooler, designed to maintain the blood products at an appropriate temperature for over 24 hours.

The helicopter carries two units of the universally accepted type O-negative red blood cells and one unit of plasma. If the blood is not used within a prescribed time, it is cycled back to Northwest where it is made available to other patients.

Massive hemorrhage (blood loss) is one of the leading causes of death due to trauma, according to the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

"This is a huge step forward in pre-hospital emergency care and has the potential to impact and save many lives," said Mark Crawford, CEO at Northwest Texas Healthcare System. "The LIFESTAR Program is truly a critical care extension of our health system and carrying plasma in addition to red blood cells, allow LIFESTAR’s flight crew to replace important clotting factors that are needed to help control bleeding during severe blood loss events," Crawford added.


  See also


US NWTX Lifestar State of Texas
US Med Trans Corp
NHRMC AirLink Helicopters Now Carry Plasma
Chicago Lifestar Now Carrying Blood and Plasma
Blood Transfusion Bill for New York





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