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As doctors treated the horrific injuries of victims shot in the Pulse nightclub massacre here, a mistaken report of a gunman nearby forced officials to briefly lock down the emergency room; the medical staff shoved heavy X-ray machines against the doors, creating a makeshift barricade in a treatment bay.
Emergency room physicians ran low on tubes needed to reinflate the lungs of patients shot in the chest. The doctors scrambled to make sense of gunshot wounds because paramedics had rushed victims in with no time to assess their conditions. The hospitals emergency preparedness manager, asleep at home, received an urgent email but did not respond until awakened by text.
But of the 44 patients brought to Orlando Regional Medical Center with life-threatening gunshot wounds in the early hours of June 12, 35 survived.
The Pulse nightclub massacre has put Orlando on a growing roster of places Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown, Paris, San Bernardino forced to confront attacks with injuries comparable to those in war zones. More will become clear over time, but Orlandos response is already beginning to provide lessons on the challenges, large and small, of dealing with mass shootings, as well as what went right and what went wrong, what can be anticipated and what cannot.
Much more at the link:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/2...-lessons.html?referer=https://www.google.com/