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Old Dog New Trick · 03-03-2018, 07:33

While this is a feel good story about the survival of one person, it asks or begs the asking of several more questions.

How a first responder disregarded an order and saved a Florida school shooting victim's life - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/healt...rnd/index.html

Namely who “ordered” EMS to take GSW victims to a children’s hospital 20 miles further away then the ‘nearest’ hospital with a trauma capability?

As an EMT-P myself (once upon a time) you did load and goes to the nearest trauma center.

Another question that needs to be asked is why did they establish a ‘triage’ tent for so few patients with such a large medical capability?

I have some of my own beliefs and why the article mentions “organized chaos” what I hear through more official sources is that it was anything but ‘organized’!

A lot of those kids died where they lay because BCSO delayed entry and treatment. JMO

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Old Dog New Trick Quiet Professional Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Just above the flood plain in Southern Texas Posts: 3,611	While this is a feel good story about the survival of one person, it asks or begs the asking of several more questions. How a first responder disregarded an order and saved a Florida school shooting victim's life - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/healt...rnd/index.html Namely who “ordered” EMS to take GSW victims to a children’s hospital 20 miles further away then the ‘nearest’ hospital with a trauma capability? As an EMT-P myself (once upon a time) you did load and goes to the nearest trauma center. Another question that needs to be asked is why did they establish a ‘triage’ tent for so few patients with such a large medical capability? I have some of my own beliefs and why the article mentions “organized chaos” what I hear through more official sources is that it was anything but ‘organized’! A lot of those kids died where they lay because BCSO delayed entry and treatment. JMO __________________ You only live once; live well. Have no regrets when the end happens! “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Sir Edmund Burke) Last edited by Old Dog New Trick; 03-03-2018 at 07:35.
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