(Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)As investigators fill in the details of Stephen Paddock’s rampage during a country music festival along the Las Vegas Strip, doctors, nurses and paramedics are recounting injuries they say are rarely seen in this country. So many patients poured into the city’s hospitals that pediatric surgeons were operating on adults and obstetricians were attending to trauma patients. Oct. 3, 2017 An American flag is lowered to half-staff along the Las Vegas Strip. About five miles away at Sunrise Hospital, 214 patients were treated in three hours — nearly the number typically seen in a day. Heather Long and Lynh Bui in Las Vegas contributed to this report.

Source: Washington Post October 04, 2017 00:18 UTC