07 October, 2017

Top-level trauma care, within close reach, saved lives in Las Vegas

Top-level trauma care, within close reach, saved lives in Las Vegas: "LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - From the field of sudden mass casualties to the unmistakable and devastating internal injuries of high-velocity gunfire, Sunday’s shooting at a Las Vegas music festival bore the hallmarks of war. So did the medical response.

The life-saving effort was in many ways textbook battlefield medicine.

It called on U.S. worst-case drills informed by lessons in wars from Vietnam to Iraq and refined by attacks on civilians in Paris, San Bernardino and Orlando."



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