When the Williamson Medical Center (WMC) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) was approved to carry and administer blood
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products in the field last fall, paramedic McKenna Dubbert knew the move would save lives. She just didn’t know that one of them would be her own father. “We had just dropped off a patient at Williamson and were returning to our zone in Nolensville when I got a call from my mother,” McKenna recalled. “We showed up at the house and verified that his blood pressure was very low. He was definitely in shock.” Once McKenna and her fellow paramedics loaded Dubbert’s father, Bruce, onto the ambulance and assessed his condition, they determined they needed to administer blood. Almost immediately, Bruce’s condition improved. “I was in the ambulance and still thinking this wasn’t a big deal until someone came in with a unit of blood and administered it to me,” Bruce said. “I don’t know that I would have made it without the blood. It bought me the time to get to the hospital.”
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