Rethinking the hemorrhagic shock chain of survival: The role, importance, and impact of prehospital blood administration

MJL is the non-compensated Chairperson of the nonprofit Stop the Bleed Coalition, an educational consultant for Stryker Medical Education, and a consultant with GMR. He is the EMS Medical Director of Continuing Education for the American Red Cross and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the American Red Cross. JRK is the Principal/EMS Physician with EMSMD, PLLC, Chair of the Prehospital Blood Transfusion Coalition, and non-Executive BOD member and EMS Consultant for Velico Medical, Inc. JBH is on the board of directors of QinFlow, Hemostatics, and Zibrio. He receives research grant support from the DoD and NIH, focused on hemorrhage control and resuscitation. He consults with WFIRM, Geneva Foundation, Aspen Medical, and Infrascan, and is the co-inventor of the Junctional Emergency Tourniquet Tool and thus receives royalties from UT Health. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to this article to disclose. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.