when shots rang out at the Jacksonville
Landing Sunday six of the 12 people hurt
were taken to UF Health Hospital known
for its trauma care all of those injured
in the shooting are expected to be okay
you have health doctors spoke with News
four jacks just hours after the shooting
and said there is a mass casualty plan
in place so doctors were prepared for
this type of emergency
joining me now dr. Murray Crandall with
UF health who was in the trauma center
that Sunday in fact I saw you in that
news conference you trained for it but
when reality sets in is it any different
so first we wanted to extend our
condolences to families who lost loved
ones in the shooting but we were
fortunate our patients who came to our
trauma center had a very rapid response
rapid evaluation and rapid treatment of
their injuries and not and all are
expected to do very well that we do
prepare for this and it while it while
this gathered national attention or
international attention really every
week I would say we have some event
motor vehicle collision two cars hit
each other or pileup three or four cars
which probably slows down your transit
here that that result in five to seven
to eight patients coming into the trauma
center at once we prepare the trauma
Bay's prepare the trauma beds get more
radiology support get more ER in medical
texts if we need them and it is it it is
an incredibly well-oiled machine take me
into the ER that morning would you
describe it as choreographed organized
chaos it was I wouldn't even call it
chaos it was really what we do the only
concern was what if this were larger
what if this were more of a you know
Orlando or Las Vegas type of event where
a hundred people were coming and we did
prepare for that we said if this turns
out to be the case make sure we have our
triage area set up outside so we can
evaluate the injured and bring the most
severely injured inside and call in more
staff but we had all of our trauma Bay's
prepared all of the nurses were prepared
our CT scans were at the ready that sort
of thing this is the biggest mass
shooting in Northeast Florida since 1990
I think it was when there was that
shooting at GMC GMAC and I don't know if
you're even here in town back then but I
assume that this training is a work in
progress
and that you now look at the lessons
learned from what happens Sunday and how
you can better improve the treatment yes
always there's always opportunities for
improvement we do mass casualty drills
as a as a trauma center that's one of
the things that were expected to do well
so it is part of our care for the
community we do mass casualty drills
that involved not only our providers our
our surgeons our emergency medicine
physicians our nurses and and all of the
other staff that support us and are just
such an integral part of our trauma
center but also pre-hospital providers
so Jacksonville Fire and Rescue all the
pre-hospital providers that just do such
a tremendous service for our community
now there's the physical care and a lot
of people don't think about it when you
get a situation like this in the arc
there's the emotional care not just for
the victims but also for their families
who are anxiously waiting outside that's
exactly right and there that's sort of
two components there's the immediate
there's the immediate need for family
members and patients to know what's
happening and so we do set up we do have
support services we have 24/7
availability of chaplains
who speak to the families speak to the
speak to the patients and try to try to
reunify and we work with the city to do
that too in an in a in a reunification
plan and as part of our mass casualty
drill but then afterwards at UF were
very fortunate to have trauma
psychological services we have trained
psychologists who work with exactly
these folks people who have who are a
very very high risk for acute traumatic
traumatic stress or in the long term
post-traumatic stress thanks for being
here and it's comforting in this
community to know that this kind of care
both physical and emotional is available
should you need it appreciate it to read
more about UF Health's trauma center and
how doctors work to help the victims of
Sunday's shooting head to news for Jax
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