Lauren Caruba

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Investigations Reporter at The Dallas Morning News

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Dallas Fire-Rescue to move forward with pilot blood transfusion program

Feb 12, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Lauren Caruba

Dallas Fire-Rescue plans to roll out a pilot program this summer that could benefit hundreds of patients with emergency bleeding from serious injuries across the city each year. The fire department, which provides emergency medical services to the city of Dallas, intends to start carrying blood on some EMS vehicles in the coming months to speed access to transfusions for patients with life-threatening bleeding from shootings, stabbings, car crashes and other major injuries.
Atmos-owned lines were near notable North Texas explosion sites

Feb 12, 2024 | thederrick.com | Zaeem Shaikh |Lauren Caruba
Atmos-owned lines were near notable North Texas explosion sites

Feb 12, 2024 | thebrunswicknews.com | Zaeem Shaikh |Lauren Caruba
Years after The News’ 2018 report, Atmos Energy still under fire for gas explosions

Feb 11, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Zaeem Shaikh |Lauren Caruba

Nearly a month after an explosion at a downtown Fort Worth hotel injured nearly two dozen people, cleanup has finally begun at the site. Investigators initially said a natural gas leak is believed to have prompted the Jan. 8 blast at the Sandman Signature Hotel, 810 Houston St., but a cause has not been officially determined.
Bleeding Out: A North Texas man nearly died after a horrific, head-on crash. Here’s what saved him

Nov 30, 2023 | interactives.dallasnews.com | Lauren Caruba

Wayne Elmore stands with his wife, Jolyn, at his home in the tiny farming town of Mertens, near Corsicana. Elmore was in a head-on crash on a two-lane country road near Mertens in 2019. Critically injured, he survived with the help of a blood transfusion as he was flown to a trauma hospital in Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)Wayne Elmore was on his way to his job as a school bus driver in rural North Texas when a vehicle collision left him with head-to-toe broken bones.
Bleeding Out: Dallas-Fort Worth lags behind other Texas cities in early blood transfusion care. But that’s changing

Nov 30, 2023 | interactives.dallasnews.com | Lauren Caruba

By Lauren Caruba | Investigative ReporterPublished Dec. 1, 2023Blood seeped from the stab wound in the man’s leg while paramedics tried desperately to revive him. By the time trauma staff at Parkland Health pulled off his boots, a breathtaking amount of blood gushed out. The gash would have been simple to repair, had the weapon not sliced through his femoral artery. Within minutes, he was dead.
Interactive map: How far are you from a trauma center?

Nov 29, 2023 | interactives.dallasnews.com | Lauren Caruba

A Parker County Hospital District Life Care EMS ambulance headed for the Medical City Weatherford emergency room in 2022. Weatherford does not have a trauma center to treat badly injured patients who need medical care as soon as possible. (Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)After a major injury, every minute can affect a patient’s chance of survival. In some parts of the country, help can be far away.
Bleeding Out: Inside our investigation into stark disparities in trauma care within the U.S. health care system

Nov 29, 2023 | interactives.dallasnews.com | Lauren Caruba

Parker County Hospital District EMS paramedic Kraig Hayman responds to a call in 2022 in Weatherford. Only three suburban EMS agencies carry blood products on ambulances, and Parker County is one of them. (Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)Bleeding OutBy Ari Sen | Computational Journalistand Lauren Caruba | Investigative ReporterPublished November 30, 2023FacebookTwitterEmailPrintTens of thousands of Americans bleed to death every year with injuries they could have survived, researchers say.
Bleeding Out: Trauma deserts in rural America: Where you live can determine whether you live

Nov 29, 2023 | interactives.dallasnews.com | Lauren Caruba

By Lauren Caruba | Investigative Reporterand Ari Sen | Computational JournalistPublished Nov. 30, 2023GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. — Late one night last year on the western edge of Colorado, a car careened off a cliff and landed at the bottom of a ravine. A few miles from the city center, rescue and emergency medical workers converged where the car had flattened hundreds of feet below.
Patients with traumatic injuries often bleed out en route to the hospital. A solution is emerging.

Nov 28, 2023 | expressnews.com | Lauren Caruba

Second of six partsThis series is a collaboration between the Dallas Morning News and the San Antonio Express-News. The way Dr. Donald Jenkins sees it, what saves lives on the battlefield could save lives on streets across America. During nearly 25 years in the Air Force, Jenkins operated on troops with devastating wounds from bombs and bullets — ones not so different from those that ordinary people sustain from cars, gun violence and random accidents.

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Articles

Dallas Fire-Rescue to move forward with pilot blood transfusion program

Atmos-owned lines were near notable North Texas explosion sites

Atmos-owned lines were near notable North Texas explosion sites

Years after The News’ 2018 report, Atmos Energy still under fire for gas explosions

Bleeding Out: A North Texas man nearly died after a horrific, head-on crash. Here’s what saved him

Bleeding Out: Dallas-Fort Worth lags behind other Texas cities in early blood transfusion care. But that’s changing

Interactive map: How far are you from a trauma center?

Bleeding Out: Inside our investigation into stark disparities in trauma care within the U.S. health care system

Bleeding Out: Trauma deserts in rural America: Where you live can determine whether you live

Patients with traumatic injuries often bleed out en route to the hospital. A solution is emerging.

Journalists covering the same region

Julye Keeble

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Alexis Scott

Chris Thomasson

Judith Rayo

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