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The Type O whole blood and assessment of AGE during prehospital resuscitation trial, or simply TOWAR, is a research study that will look at whether giving whole blood transfusion early in the course of treatment would help severely injured patients that lose a lot of blood survive their injuries.
Normally when a person loses a lot of blood, they may receive whole blood as part of standard medical care, but not until they arrive at the hospital. For this study, some people who have injuries that caused them to lose a lot of blood will be randomly picked to get whole blood before coming to the hospital. The other people will get the usual care, which could include whole blood. Information from health records for both groups will also be collected as part of the study. Researchers will look at both groups of people and see if one group did better than the other.
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