The frantic, bloody hours in a Las Vegas hospital as doctors rushed to save lives - News Summed Up

The frantic, bloody hours in a Las Vegas hospital as doctors rushed to save lives


He needed more gauze, more chest tubes, more operating rooms left open, more gurneys and wheelchairs lined up in the concrete bay where ambulances would soon be arriving. Gunshot wounds to the head sometimes had to wait before getting attention from a neurosurgeon. All 20 or so beds outside the operating rooms were being used. The dead went to the makeshift morgue, a gastrointestinal lab adjacent to the suite of operating rooms. By daybreak Monday, more than 100 doctors and nurse practitioners at Sunrise had tended to roughly 200 patients, nearly all with gunshot wounds.


Source: Los Angeles Times October 05, 2017 00:56 UTC



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