FIRE & RESCUE

Fire and rescue blood product management and compliance software

Every blood unit stored at the right temperature. Every expiration window monitored. Every transfusion documented at the point of care. PSTrax gives fire and rescue departments running whole blood programs the management system that patient safety and program accreditation require.

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What a mobile blood program demands that paper cannot deliver

Fire and rescue departments that carry whole blood on frontline apparatus run a prehospital blood program under the same clinical, logistical, and compliance demands as any mobile transfusion service. Blood products must be held at strict storage temperatures and documented throughout their time in service. Expiration windows are short, and transfusion documentation has to be completed at the point of care, not reconstructed after the call.

Managed manually, the gaps are predictable. Temperature monitoring depends on periodic inspections rather than continuous measurement. Expiration tracking is only as reliable as the last inventory review. Transfusion records get filled in from memory during chart review. Each of those gaps is a patient safety exposure and an accreditation risk, and medical directors expect documentation standards that manual processes cannot consistently produce.

How PSTrax manages fire and rescue blood products

Cold chain monitoring

Storage temperature conditions are monitored continuously. Temperature excursions are detected and alerted in real time before a cold chain failure creates a patient safety event or a compliance problem.

Program accreditation and documentation requirements

Fire-based blood programs operate under requirements set by accreditation bodies, medical directors, and state regulatory authorities that specify cold chain standards, documentation requirements, and quality assurance processes. PSTrax generates the documentation those requirements demand as a natural output of program operations.

When an accreditation review or medical director audit calls for records, the documentation is already there, complete, current, and available without preparation.

Built for fire-based prehospital blood programs


PSTrax blood product management was designed for prehospital programs, not adapted from a hospital blood bank system. The cold chain monitoring, expiration tracking, and point-of-care documentation workflows reflect the mobile operational reality of fire and rescue, where a unit can move between apparatus, stations, and the field in a single shift. Every department is configured to its own product types, storage infrastructure, and compliance requirements before go-live.

"PSTrax has made our members better at knowing their vehicle and equipment inventories, which makes them more efficient during an incident."
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Deputy Fire Chief John Plofkin
Wilton Fire Department (CT)
"PSTrax has been a force multiplier for our agency. We were able to see a 70% reduction in EMS waste when using PSTrax. The staff at PSTrax are fantastic, and the support is incredible."
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Fire Chief Rich Solomon
Sable Altura Fire Department (CO)
“The biggest value is taking a ton of formal and informal systems and putting them into one collective effort that provides information from the executive chief level all the way down to the user.”
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Colonel (Ret.) U.S. Army, Logistics and Procurement Manager Curtis Brown
Prince William County Fire & Rescue (VA)
“PSTrax is easy to use. It has provided real-time documentation of equipment and repairs”
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Sergeant Michael Larson
Bloomington Police Department (MN)
“I would highly recommend PSTrax to all agencies as it has streamlined our program and allowed us to better track the systems that we are dealing with and the medications that are on hand.”
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EMS Coordinator Carly Cripe
Redlands Fire Department (CA)

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See how fire and rescue departments manage blood products with PSTrax

Every unit accounted for. Every transfusion documented.


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Frequently Asked Questions: Apparatus & Vehicles

Insights for Mission-Ready Agencies.

NFPA guidance, supply management, and what fire departments learned in their first year.

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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

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Watch this webinar, hosted by PSTrax and LION in partnership with FireRescue1, and see practical ways to build a complete, audit-ready gear tracking program that supports both safety and NFPA 1850 compliance.

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This On-Demand webinar, hosted by PSTrax and integration partner Life-Assist, shows practical ways to gain better visibility into your supplies, simplify purchasing, and cut down on manual work.

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E-BOOK

Paper to Digital Transformation Guide

Fire departments face relentless demands to respond faster, minimize risk, and ensure crew safety. Explore how PSTrax equips your team to achieve peak performance by streamlining inspections and inventory management.

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