Shooting of Las Vegas : hospitals call reinforcements

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Published the 03.10.2017 at 15.05
Update the 03.10.2017 at 15h37

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The emergency services organized themselves to take care of many injuries, often serious, who flock to the hospital in Las Vegas (United States). More than 500 people have been affected during the shootout Sunday night, either by the bullets of the shooter, either by the movements of the crowd.

Hospitals are trying to cope. They have mobilized all of their personnel, and appealed to doctors, nurses, and other staff in the hospital. The Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, the nearest to the place of the shooting, thus uses 100 doctors on Sunday evening, as well as 100 other people, nurses, technicians, and even the reception staff and specialized cleaning.

Saturated, but not overwhelmed

Sunrise Hospital has received up to 180 persons, of which 124 wounded by a bullet, according to Dr. Jeffrey Murawsky, the chief medical officer of the hospital authority to take care of these seriously ill patients. “We have already experienced events during which 30 people arrived, all of a sudden,” he explains to NPR. But no one has ever seen anything like it. “

The hospital arrives, however, to manage the exceptional influx. “We used the hallways to see patients, we are much more filled than usual, and the whole thing is pretty chaotic,” Dr. Murawsky. But we have an emergency service relatively large, and we were able to sort patients in-house. “They had, in less than 24 hours, operated more than 30 people.

The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, located in the center of Las Vegas, is the best equipped for trauma heavy. It has received 104 patients, of whom four died and 12 were still in a critical condition on Monday. The wounded were sorted directly on the area of arrival of the ambulances, and the most urgent cases were transported to the operating theatres, only a few minutes.