美国医学界对911灾难作出紧急反应但结果不容乐观
美国医学界对911灾难作出紧急反应但结果不容乐观
Emergency Response the Day After Attacks
By ABCNEWS.com
All across the country, blood donation centers were flooded with people offering their blood to help victims in New York and Washington D.C. But some medical personnel are not optimistic about having many survivors to treat.
As the afternoon sun broke sharply over the skyline and plumes of smoke rose in a virtually shut down New York City, a massive emergency response continued.
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Lines at blood centers across the city stretched blocks long. Signs posted on shuttered business and telephone booths throughout the city urged people to volunteer, give blood, lend a hand.
Shipments of blood from donation centers all over the country were arriving early today in New York — and Washington D.C. — mostly by truck, some by National Guard air teams.
Estimates of the number of dead at the Pentagon (news - web sites) after a plane leveled part of the building were lowered from as many as 800 to up to 200. In New York, hundreds of hospital beds were readied, but many of them remained empty. The mayor said he expected "thousands" to have been killed.
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Response From Coast to Coast
Emergency personnel from coast to coast were joining the effort in New York and Washington and shipping blood. Emergency rooms in New York treated over 1,600 people on Tuesday, alone.
The American Medical Association began compiling a list of civilian doctors willing to volunteer. Some hospitals canceled elective surgeries to conserve medical supplies. Meanwhile, about 400 military medical personnel were expected to be brought to New York to relieve civilian doctors. They were also bringing about 30 square feet of skin from a tissue bank with them. Many of the victims of the tragedy have major burn injuries.
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At the Virginia Hospital Center, where most of the wounded from the Pentagon attack were taken, dozens of nurses and doctors, who on Tuesday were outside the emergency room, today were directing relatives and family members to a phone number for status of friends and family. That number is 703-558-6763.
The director of the hospital's emergency department has joined emergency workers at the Pentagon to look for victims and help treat firefighters suffering from smoke inhalation.
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The Transplant Services Center at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is sending skin from its tissue bank to assist victims of the attack.
Red Cross Doubles Ability
The American Red Cross (news - web sites), meanwhile, expanded its blood drawing capability. On Tuesday as lines snaked across and along Manhattan streets, people were turned away because blood donation centers couldn't handle the rush. But a spokesperson says the Red Cross should be able to handle the floods of volunteers today.
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At a triage center on Manhattan's West Side at the Chelsea Piers recreational complex, an ominous calm descended today over the over the hundreds of doctors who both volunteered and were sent to the site. By 12:30 p.m. ET, they were told that military medical personnel would soon be taking over. They weren't receiving as many injuries as they thought they would. Instead, they were seeing bodies. Many families and friends of people who worked at the World Trade Center sat and waited for word on loved ones.
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"It's a bad sign," said one doctor who was there. "We don't expect many injuries, but just more fatalities."
Since the attack, St. Vincent's Hospital, where another triage center was set up, had treated about 600 people at its eight branches across the city, mostly for minor injuries.
"It's much worse than you see on TV," said Dr. Steven Garner, chief medical officer at the hospital. "There's a smell in the air of burnt flesh, of death. You see people with arms severed, a chest you can't recognize because of blunt injury."
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Garner said many injuries appeared to be related to mental anguish. He said the hospital had treated a cameraman who had a heart attack after witnessing the attack. He also mentioned a woman who showed up at the hospital's Queens branch with abrasions and in a daze, with no memory of her 20-mile walk from lower Manhattan.
He thinks the hospitals have not yet seen the worst of the injuries. "Unfortunately the news will get worse."
, 百拇医药 In lower Manhattan ferries carted bodies to a makeshift morgue off the Hudson River in New Jersey. Ferries were returning to Manhattan with medical supplies.
"It is unimaginable, devastating, unspeakable carnage," Firefighter Scott O'Grady told The Associated Press. "To say it looks like a war zone and to tell you about bodies lying in the street and blood and steel beams blocking roads would not begin to describe what it's like. It's horrible."
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Impact on Other Hospitals
Other hospitals around the country felt after effects. Because the Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites) grounded flights, many donor transplants couldn't be performed.
At Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia a heart transplant couldn't be performed because they were awaiting shipment of a heart from upstate Pennsylvania.
"Additionally, hospitals were not doing elective surgical procedures [which includes donor organ retrieval] as a result of the emergencies yesterday," said Howard Eisen, medical director, heart failure and transplant center at Temple University Hospital.
ABCNEWS' Rose Palazzolo, Alexa Pozniak and Andrew Giese contributed to this report., 百拇医药
Emergency Response the Day After Attacks
By ABCNEWS.com
All across the country, blood donation centers were flooded with people offering their blood to help victims in New York and Washington D.C. But some medical personnel are not optimistic about having many survivors to treat.
As the afternoon sun broke sharply over the skyline and plumes of smoke rose in a virtually shut down New York City, a massive emergency response continued.
, http://www.100md.com
Lines at blood centers across the city stretched blocks long. Signs posted on shuttered business and telephone booths throughout the city urged people to volunteer, give blood, lend a hand.
Shipments of blood from donation centers all over the country were arriving early today in New York — and Washington D.C. — mostly by truck, some by National Guard air teams.
Estimates of the number of dead at the Pentagon (news - web sites) after a plane leveled part of the building were lowered from as many as 800 to up to 200. In New York, hundreds of hospital beds were readied, but many of them remained empty. The mayor said he expected "thousands" to have been killed.
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Response From Coast to Coast
Emergency personnel from coast to coast were joining the effort in New York and Washington and shipping blood. Emergency rooms in New York treated over 1,600 people on Tuesday, alone.
The American Medical Association began compiling a list of civilian doctors willing to volunteer. Some hospitals canceled elective surgeries to conserve medical supplies. Meanwhile, about 400 military medical personnel were expected to be brought to New York to relieve civilian doctors. They were also bringing about 30 square feet of skin from a tissue bank with them. Many of the victims of the tragedy have major burn injuries.
, http://www.100md.com
At the Virginia Hospital Center, where most of the wounded from the Pentagon attack were taken, dozens of nurses and doctors, who on Tuesday were outside the emergency room, today were directing relatives and family members to a phone number for status of friends and family. That number is 703-558-6763.
The director of the hospital's emergency department has joined emergency workers at the Pentagon to look for victims and help treat firefighters suffering from smoke inhalation.
, 百拇医药
The Transplant Services Center at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is sending skin from its tissue bank to assist victims of the attack.
Red Cross Doubles Ability
The American Red Cross (news - web sites), meanwhile, expanded its blood drawing capability. On Tuesday as lines snaked across and along Manhattan streets, people were turned away because blood donation centers couldn't handle the rush. But a spokesperson says the Red Cross should be able to handle the floods of volunteers today.
, http://www.100md.com
At a triage center on Manhattan's West Side at the Chelsea Piers recreational complex, an ominous calm descended today over the over the hundreds of doctors who both volunteered and were sent to the site. By 12:30 p.m. ET, they were told that military medical personnel would soon be taking over. They weren't receiving as many injuries as they thought they would. Instead, they were seeing bodies. Many families and friends of people who worked at the World Trade Center sat and waited for word on loved ones.
, http://www.100md.com
"It's a bad sign," said one doctor who was there. "We don't expect many injuries, but just more fatalities."
Since the attack, St. Vincent's Hospital, where another triage center was set up, had treated about 600 people at its eight branches across the city, mostly for minor injuries.
"It's much worse than you see on TV," said Dr. Steven Garner, chief medical officer at the hospital. "There's a smell in the air of burnt flesh, of death. You see people with arms severed, a chest you can't recognize because of blunt injury."
, http://www.100md.com
Garner said many injuries appeared to be related to mental anguish. He said the hospital had treated a cameraman who had a heart attack after witnessing the attack. He also mentioned a woman who showed up at the hospital's Queens branch with abrasions and in a daze, with no memory of her 20-mile walk from lower Manhattan.
He thinks the hospitals have not yet seen the worst of the injuries. "Unfortunately the news will get worse."
, 百拇医药 In lower Manhattan ferries carted bodies to a makeshift morgue off the Hudson River in New Jersey. Ferries were returning to Manhattan with medical supplies.
"It is unimaginable, devastating, unspeakable carnage," Firefighter Scott O'Grady told The Associated Press. "To say it looks like a war zone and to tell you about bodies lying in the street and blood and steel beams blocking roads would not begin to describe what it's like. It's horrible."
, http://www.100md.com
Impact on Other Hospitals
Other hospitals around the country felt after effects. Because the Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites) grounded flights, many donor transplants couldn't be performed.
At Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia a heart transplant couldn't be performed because they were awaiting shipment of a heart from upstate Pennsylvania.
"Additionally, hospitals were not doing elective surgical procedures [which includes donor organ retrieval] as a result of the emergencies yesterday," said Howard Eisen, medical director, heart failure and transplant center at Temple University Hospital.
ABCNEWS' Rose Palazzolo, Alexa Pozniak and Andrew Giese contributed to this report., 百拇医药