Trauma medicine has learned lessons from the battlefield
Civilian doctors are saving more lives after terrorist attacks by copying their military peers
BY 11.30pm on October 1st, 90 minutes after Stephen Paddock began firing out of a window at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, the floors of the emergency department at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Centre were awash with blood. The air smelled of iron. Staff slipped and slid as they moved from one patient to another.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Damage control”
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