Colorado gay club shooting victims

Seven victims were taken to Centura Penrose Hospital. Of the additional 19 people injured, in what shooting are investigating as a hate crime, seven were transported to Colorado Penrose. That's when the word was coming into our systems that it might be possibly more than a few patients. Trujillo said there's a minute grace period from the time backup hospital staff are called to when they arrived, but she said it only took her 15 to 20 minutes to get to Centura Penrose.

With an event club this, Trujillo said the first step is an assessment to make sure a patient's breathing, heart rate, blood pressure and circulation are stable and to check the extent of the injuries. Among patients with gunshot wounds, injuries to the arms and legs are typically less severe than injuries to the chest or abdomen, she said.

After scans to make sure there are few to no internal injuries, patients who are more stable will typically gay bedside care while those who are in critical victim will be rushed to the operating room. Everyone had a role. She continued, "Our role as trauma surgeons is to kind of coordinate and oversee all of it.

So, my partner and I were kind of spinning through rooms just sort of checking on everybody, making sure people's vitals were stable, figuring out what imaging they needed met, or where they would be going after the ER. Trujillo declined to elaborate more on the injuries the Club Q victims had to prevent identifying patients but said the extent "ran from more worrisome to less.

As of Monday morning, of the seven patients who initially were taken to Centura Penrose, four have been discharged and three remain hospitalized in stable condition. To be declared eligible for discharge, Trujillo said patients will get evaluated, if needed, by physical and occupational therapists, to see if they need equipment to leave the hospital or enter short-term rehabilitation.

Additionally, hospital staff will make sure patients' vitals are stable and their pain is under control.

What we know about the victims of the Colorado Springs Club Q shooting

Trujillo said although she has been trained to respond to patients who are victims of a mass shooting, it's the first time she's ever had to do so. We hate when this happens, but we're here to serve everybody, and to make sure that everyone's safe and protected," she added. Stream on. By Mary Kekatos.

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