The street into the trauma bay they were quickly assessed. If they did not have immediate lifethreatening injuries they were moved elsewhere and cared for by our colleagues and paramedics and we had an emt that would drop the patient off, we had other environmental services, the bay where patients would go 30 to 45 seconds, sharp objects with bloodied towels, all kinds of stuff. I just cannot say enough about how much we increased our resources to the level of need within a short period of time. After we got that initial we had kind of if you would call it a low while the shooter was barricaded inside. At this point, we had used basically everything in the Emergency Department and our suppliers got stuff from central supply, brought self over from older palmer hospital, Winnie Palmer hospital such that we didnt need for anything. We had used at all but we had replaced immediately. Then we got word from opd that there would be another 20 to 25 patients continuing to come and thats when
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