doesn t have another gunshot wound, right? that s part of the trauma workup and evaluation, you never assume that just what you see is all that is present. so i saw the severe head injury, i saw some blood loss, her eyes were closed, she did have a blackened right eye, swollen right eye, and she was she was grunting a little bit. i got the impression she was trying to communicate but was being frustrated by the fact that she could not. reporter: scoop and run is how they describe it, anderson. picking up the patient at the scene, in this case the congresswoman, and running her to the hospital as quickly as possible. she did not have a breathing tube when she got here. they put one in in the emergency room. took her to the c.a.t. scanner after that and off to the operating room. the whole process took 38 minutes from the time she came to the door to the time she was in the operating room. that s incredibly fast. you also talked to some of the other shooting victims. how are they
the first thing i did was walked in the room, some things were occurring, and i think i ve said this before but my first response was i grabbed her hand, leaned into her and said, ms. giffords, you re in the hospital, we re going to care for you, please squeeze my hand. and she did. reporter: did she have a wrap on her head? can you see the wounds at this point? so you have some idea what the obvious wounds are but you look at the rest of her body to make sure she doesn t have another gunshot wound right? that s part of the trauma workup and evaluation, you never assume that just what you see is all that is present. so i saw the severe head injury, i saw some blood loss, her eyes were closed, she did have a blackened right eye, swollen right eye, and she was she was grunting a little bit. i got the impression she was trying to communicate but was being frustrated by the fact that she could not. reporter: scoop and run is how they describe it, anderson. picking up the patient
obvious wounds are but you look at the rest of her body to make sure she doesn t have another gunshot wound right? that s part of the trauma workup and evaluation, you never assume that just what you see is all that is present. so i saw the severe head injury, i saw some blood loss, her eyes were closed, she did have a blackened right eye, swollen right eye, and she was she was grunting a little bit. i got the impression she was trying to communicate but was being frustrated by the fact that she could not. reporter: scoop and run is how they describe it, anderson. picking up the patient at the scene, in this case the congresswoman, and running her to the hospital as quickly as possible. she did not have a breathing tube when she got here. they put one in in the emergency room. took her to the c.a.t. scanner after that and off to the operating room. the whole process took 38 minutes from the time she came to the door to the time she was in the operating room. that s incredibly f
gunshot wound right? that s part of the trauma workup and evaluation, you never assume that just what you see is all that is present. so i saw the severe head injury, i saw some blood loss, her eyes were closed, she did have a blackened right eye, swollen right eye, and she was she was grunting a little bit. i got the impression she was trying to communicate but was being frustrated by the fact that she could not. reporter: scoop and run is how they describe it, anderson. picking up the patient at the scene, in this case the congresswoman, and running her to the hospital as quickly as possible. she did not have a breathing tube when she got here. they put one in in the emergency room. took her to the c.a.t. scanner after that and off to the operating room. the whole process took 38 minutes from the time she came to the door to the time she was in the operating room. that s incredibly fast. you also talked to some of the other shooting victims. how are they doing? reporter: th
her hand? did you see the wound? you knew at some idea what the obvious wounds were, but you look at the rest of the body to see if there is anymore wounds, right? well, that is part of the trauma workup. i saw a severe head injury and saw some blood loss and the eyes were closed. she had a blackened right eye and swollen right eye, and she was grunting a little bit. i got the impression she was trying to communicate, but was being frustrated by the fact that she could not. sanjay is still over there at the hospital, and when he walks out we will speak with him live here in the situation room. stand by, and we will go the tucson to speak with dr. gupta. one of the heroes of the tucson shooting is certainly daniel hernandez, the 20-year-old office intern who rushed to the aid of a fallen congresswoman. last night hernandez spoke movingly at the memorial service at tucson without any tell