2024 TX EMTF Annual Report
Our 2024 Texas Emergency Medical Task Force report has been released. You can read the full report by clicking here.
2023 TX EMTF Annual Report
Our 2023 Texas Emergency Medical Task Force report has been released. You can read the full report by clicking here.
Use of Whole Blood Deployment Programs for Mass Casualty Incidents
This report, published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, focuses on the deployment of whole blood to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, TX. Read the full brief report on the use of the TXEMTF whole blood deployment program for mass casualty incidents. December 2022 - Volume 93 - Issue 6
New Tractor Trailer MMU
The TX EMTF has recently acquired four tractor trailer Mobile Medical Units (MMU).
New Era of AMBUS
The TX EMTF program is excited to welcome three new buses into our AMBUS program. Fort Bend County EMS, the first of the new generation AMBUS (AMBUS 2.0), came online earlier this year. With the addition of Corpus Christi Fire/EMS and Acadian EMS in early 2020, the EMTF program's statewide AMBUS count will increase to 16.
IDRU Milestone
The TX EMTF's Infectious Disease Response Unit (IDRU) reached a new milestone today with the addition of a pre-hospital team in TX EMTF 1. All 8 EMTF regions now have a pre-hospital team for the treatment and transfer of patients with high-consequence infectious diseases.