- Las Vegas-area hospitals like ‘war zones’ after Strip massacre (reviewjournal.com)
The bullet wounds that University Medical Center trauma surgeon Dr. Jay Coates saw late Sunday night were to the head, chest, abdomen, legs and arms...“It was like we were in a war zone,” he said early Monday...“From our patients’ wounds, you could tell a high-powered weapon had been used.”...Despite that preparation, UMC medical personnel and others at Sunrise, Valley and St. Rose Dominican hospitals said the carnage...Stephen Paddock unleashed at the...country music festival adjacent to Mandalay Bay was beyond anything you could imagine. Patients arrived so fast that the surgeons and support personnel couldn’t begin to keep up...“It was controlled chaos, a combat medical hospital — blood everyplace,” said Dr. Dale Carrison, head of emergency...staff at UMC...UMC, Southern Nevada’s only Level I trauma center, received 104 patients. Other patients — the final number is still uncertain — were later transferred to the hospital from other medical centers that couldn’t handle the severity of the gunshot wounds...Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, a Level II trauma center and the closest trauma center to the Strip, treated 214 patients, with at least 30 needing surgery. Fifteen patients died there. The Sunrise system’s other hospitals, Southern Hills and Mountain View, treated nine and eight patients, respectively...Gretchen Papez, a spokeswoman for the Valley Hospital System, said the network of hospitals received a total of 228 patients, eight of whom died. She provided this breakdown by individual hospital: Desert Springs, 105 patients treated; Spring Valley, 53; Henderson, 32; Valley, 29; Summerlin, six; and Centennial Hills, three.
- Zipline raises $25M as it prepares to launch drone delivery medical supply service in U.S. (medcitynews.com)
Zipline, a San Francisco Bay-area company that’s using drones to deliver medical supplies such as blood, (and soon, medication and vaccines) to rural areas and in developing countries, has closed a $25 million Series B round...The funding comes at a time when Zipline is expanding its business in Rwanda and preparing to launch in the U.S...The drone business is planning to launch its drone delivery service in the U.S. next year, as part of a partnership with the White House and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration...Zipline has been ramping up its medical drone business in Rwanda. The company signed a one-year partnership with Rwanda’s government to deliver blood for transfusions to the western half of the country and plans to start deliveries in the eastern half of Rwanda by the end of the year.
- Handy Device Shows Where Patient’s Veins Are Located (mentalfloss.com)
Those who fear needles are not likely to want to experience the prick more than once. And even experienced medical professionals can miss a vein sometimes, so it helps to have a little guidance…VeinViewer uses harmless, near-infrared light to show precisely where veins are located and take the guesswork out of the process.