As Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre mobilized Monday to treat a torrent of acutely injured patients, the hospital was confronted with a heart-wrenching personal dilemma, too. Most victims of the van attack brought to Sunnybrook — including two who arrived deceased — could not initially be identified, says Dr. Fred Brenneman, one of the trauma surgeons on duty. Sunnybrook is the Toronto region’s main trauma centre and calls itself the largest in Canada. It might receive 10 badly injured patients in a 24-hour day, but never all at once, said Brenneman. “Obviously, it’s difficult to see families in so much pain, because their loved ones are so badly injured.

Source: National Post April 25, 2018 10:30 UTC