i want to go to the hospital right now. cnn s ryan nobles is on the scene for us. so how is congressman scalise, ryan, doing right now? snoop well, wolf, the short answer is that he s doing much better, especially much better than condition that he arrived in here at the washington medstar hospital center just a couple of days ago. we actually got a detailed report as to his condition when he arrived from the head of trauma here. listen to the doctor describe what the situation was like here just a couple of days ago. the congressman s statues remains critical. we re encouraged by improvement in his condition over the last 36 hours. we ve controlled the bleeding, and his vital signs from stabilized. he will require additional operations to manage abdominal injuries and other bone injuries. the round fragmented and did substantial damage to bones, internal organs and blood vessels. i understand he was awake on
direction of dr. owosuali. and yesterday we did an additional operation and dr. robert golden, our director of orthopedic trauma, did an operation to repair a broken bone in his leg. the congressman s status remains critical. we re encouraged by improvement in his condition over the last 36 hours. we have controlled the internal bleeding and his vital signs have stabilized. he will require additional operations to manage abdominal injuries and other bone injuries. predicting the length of his hospital stay is difficult today, presumably easier in some days when more time has passed and we have more information. after he leaves the hospital, he will req a period of healing and of rehabilitation. on behalf of the med star trauma team, i want to thank the special agents on the scene as well as the first responders for everything that they did for the
direction of another doctor and he remains in the icu today. yesterday, we did an additional operation and dr. robert golden of orthopedic trauma did an operation to repair a broken bone in his leg. the congressman s status remains critical. we are encouraged in the improvement in his condition in the last 36 hours. we have controlled his internal bleeding and his vital signs have stabilized. he will require additional surgeries to manage abdominal injuries and bone injuries. predicting the length of his hospital stay difficult today. presumably it will be easier in some days when more time has passed. he will require a period of healing after he leaves the hospital and rehabilitation. on behalf of the medstar trauma team, i want to thank the special agents on the scene as well as the first responders for
and he remains in the icu today. yesterday, we did an additional operation and dr. robert golden, our director of orthopedic trauma did an operation to repair a broken bone in his leg. the congressman s status remains critical. we are encouraged by improvement in his condition over the last 36 hours. we have controlled the internal bleeding and his vital signs have stabilized. he will require additional operations to manage abdominal injuries and other bone injuries. predicting the length of his hospital stay is difficult today. presumably, it will be easier in some days when more time has passed and we have more information. after he leaves the hospital, he will require a period of healing and of rehabilitation. on behalf of the med star trauma teamhe special agents on the scene as well as the first responders for everything that they did for
joining me on the phone is dr. mark kaplan, chair of division at trauma at einstein medical center in philadelphia. what is the most common the most common? you received many of those who were injured. what was the most common type of injury that you saw? we saw about 25 people from the crash yesterday. a vast majority of them were cuts bruises, contusions. we had about five people that were admitted with significant orthopedic injuries long bone injuries and one neck fracture. dr. kaplan we also heard from temple university that they saw a lot of chest injuries a lot of rib fractures. you didn t see that i guess at least from the descriptions that you have just given me. would you try to give us any understanding of why that difference. it s just the nature of the patients as they were triaged. philadelphia has a very large trauma center presence in philadelphia. and the decisions i guess were