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Level 1 trauma center’s key role in saving lives in Orlando

 

The Orlando shootings, as horrific as they were, would have been considerably worse if the Pulse nightclub, where Omar Mateen murdered 49 people  and injured 53 before being killed by police, had not been so close to a  Level 1 trauma center. There, in the words of The Tampa Bay Times, staff are always “poised to respond with an all-out, life-saving blitz of staff, expertise and equipment.”

“The morning of the shooting, a trauma surgeon was on call in the hospital, and a team of specially trained doctors, nurses and technicians were ready to execute a mass-casualty plan.”

“They would have never ever had the same number of survivors” if the shooting happened closer to a community hospital,  Connie Potter, a national trauma expert, told the paper.

“They did surgery in the ICU. They did surgery in the ER. They were able to call in capable people and get them in there very quickly, and they had adequate supplies.”

The paper added: “The centers are also the subject of a major health policy debate over how many of them Florida needs and how that should be decided.”

To read The Tampa Bay Times article, hit this link.

 


How Orlando Health dealt with mass murder

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Orlando Regional Medical Center.

This is Becker’s Hospital Review’s very interesting look   at how Orlando Health, a six-hospital system with two affiliated hospitals, dealt with the carnage left by mass-murdering Islamist Omar Mateen on Sunday.

Becker’s reports that:

1. “Orlando Health’s Orlando Regional Medical Center took in most of the victims. ”

2. “The hospital tweeted at 8 a.m. Sunday it had cared for just under 50 victims of the attack. ”

3. “Orlando Health put its facilities under lockdown for visitors early Sunday {June 12} morning.  ”

4. “The hospital allowed family members of confirmed patients to visit during the lockdown. The hospital also provided family members with multiple ways to access information about loved ones — it provided information at a local senior center and established a victim hotline, 407-246-4357.”

5. “The hospital is not accepting in-kind donations due to the nature of the incident. It also asked those who wished to donate blood not to come to the hospital, but to go to a blood center. ”

 


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