Doctors: All Boston bomb patients likely to live

[alsame]

This is great news.

http://news.yahoo.com/doctors-boston-bomb-patients-likely-live-153736120.html


BOSTON (AP) — In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.

That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails. Even a transit system police officer whose heart had stopped and was close to bleeding to death after a shootout with the suspects now appears headed for recovery.

"All I feel is joy," said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, referring to his hospital's 31 blast patients. "Whoever came in alive, stayed alive."

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But the remarkable, universal survival one week later of all others injured in the blasts is a testimonial to fast care at the scene, on the way to hospitals, then in emergency and operating rooms. Everyone played a part, from doctors, nurses and paramedics to strangers who took off belts to use as tourniquets and staunched bleeding with their bare hands.

[joeybee12]

1. Very happy to hear this...knr

[undeterred]

2. Awesome.

Great response and great medical care.

[TwilightZone]

3. There are some very good hospitals in the area.

This is good news, indeed.

[polly7]

4. I think the First Responders and LE, plus the many

physicians on scene and civilian heroes did such an amazing and fantastic job getting the injured so quickly to the trauma centers. There were so many who looked like they might not make it. Very, very well done!

[uponit7771]

5. kick azz!!

[Marrah_G]

6. Everybody was truly remarkable

From the ordinary citizens, to the first responders, to the doctors and nurses, you just couldn't ask for a more amazing group of people

[iandhr]

7. Great news

[klook]

8. Fantastic!

So glad to hear this!!

[sheshe2]

9. K&R!

[JDPriestly]

10. Warning to terrorists!

Americans do not give up easy. You are wasting your time. Try using words. No more hitting. Peace.

[lpbk2713]

11. This is good news

It's good that they are out of the woods but my thoughts
go out to those who will be maimed for life.

[lastlib]

12. To Everyone reading this:

GO.TAKE.RED.CROSS.FIRST.AID.TRAINING!!! The reason all these people survived is that people around them knew what to do for these injuries. The more people who have the training and know what to do, the better it is for victims of situations like this.

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. +1

[RC]

13. How many will be bankrupt in a few years from the hospital and other medical bills?

[Hekate]

14. Not. Just. Now. Please.

[RC]

15. No, now is the time to bring this up..

Not later, when all this has slipped down the public's memory hole and the monetary damage done by the bills piling up, has already been done. Then it is too late.

Now is the time when it is fresh on the minds of everyone.

Now is the time to stop the financial terrorism they will be facing.

[FailureToCommunicate]

16. We are all seeking some bit of silver lining...and this is good news. Sure, there will be

more operations, months of rehab, and many dark days ahead for these survivors. But there is hope for these people to put a semblance of their lives back together.

Our hearts go out to friends and families of those that did not survive: Krystle Campbell, who funeral was today in nearby Medford, Martin Richard, Lu Lingzi, and Officer Sean Collier. Officer Richard Donohue who nearly died is likely to make a recovery.

I have said this before, but it bears repeating: the 'primary responders' where friends and strangers standing nearby or leaping in quickly to help stop bleeding, etc. before even the nearby EMTs and police got to the scene. This is almaost always the case. Average citizens rise to the occasion to help do the right things. Of course it helps if you have some skills. I think it behooves all of us that don't already have some, to think about getting some basic emergency training. I know I will be.

http://www.redcross.org/take-a-class

http://www.fema.gov/community-emergency-response-teams/training-materials