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A Vampire’s Dream, Just in Time for Halloween: Blood “Vending Machine” provides life-saving service for trauma patients

The Medical Center of Plano (MCP) is the first hospital in Texas to use innovative technology, BloodTrack Emerge, which acts as a vending machine for blood products in the emergency department. The machine provides authorized caregivers immediate access to life-saving products when and where it is needed most, in the trauma room. In emergency medicine, “the golden hour” […]