Blood availability information from NSW Health Pathology has recently been added to the NSW Trauma app to enable pre-hospital teams to rapidly access additional blood products in critical situations.
The app, which recently won a public sector and government merit award at the NSW iAwards, is also being used by Queensland Health and the New Zealand Major Trauma National Clinical Network, where it has been mapped to trauma facilities across NZ.
It features a critical care geospatial function which has the ability to locate blood products for use in pre-hospital or inter-hospital retrieval, allowing clinicians to provide appropriate blood transfusions to critically injured patients, something that previously has been only available in hospitals.
