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“My job at that point for an hour or so if somebody has been shot
is not patient care, but in the belly or in the chest, and the ones that
organization and need to go to the OR go first. Triage is
administration,” incredibly important.”
Carrison said.
“We made sure the While emotions were riding high, Carrison
incident command said he is a veteran of the trauma center
center was set up. experience and could handle it.
We had 18 people His concerns were for his
in chairs, with residents and younger
extremity injuries emergency physicians who had
Dale Carrison’s WesternU Neocortex yearbook
portrait from 1987. primarily. We never been through something
determined like the shooting.
they needed to go to the
emergency department or “I want to make sure my
another part of the hospital.” medical students and
residents know counseling
Trauma surgeons went from is OK,” he said. “It’s OK
patient to patient to stabilize to be upset and ask for
them, returning later for help. There is no stigma
surgeries if necessary. The in asking for help after
trauma center was a chaotic something like this.”
bloodbath, Carrison said.
The operating room floors Carrison’s career in
around the resuscitation beds medicine started late in life.
were covered in blood that While a midshipman at the
needed to be cleaned up for each United States Naval
ensuing patient. Academy, he sustained a
serious shoulder injury that
“There were an amazing amount of cut short his Navy career.
shrapnel wounds from the projectiles Afterward, he became an
bouncing off the ground, a lot of Orange County deputy
extremity injuries from that,” Carrison sheriff, then was recruited
said. “Extremity injuries were vascular, by the FBI, where he
which makes them life-threatening worked for five years.
injuries. We can leave the tourniquet on
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is not patient care, but in the belly or in the chest, and the ones that
organization and need to go to the OR go first. Triage is
administration,” incredibly important.”
Carrison said.
“We made sure the While emotions were riding high, Carrison
incident command said he is a veteran of the trauma center
center was set up. experience and could handle it.
We had 18 people His concerns were for his
in chairs, with residents and younger
extremity injuries emergency physicians who had
Dale Carrison’s WesternU Neocortex yearbook
portrait from 1987. primarily. We never been through something
determined like the shooting.
they needed to go to the
emergency department or “I want to make sure my
another part of the hospital.” medical students and
residents know counseling
Trauma surgeons went from is OK,” he said. “It’s OK
patient to patient to stabilize to be upset and ask for
them, returning later for help. There is no stigma
surgeries if necessary. The in asking for help after
trauma center was a chaotic something like this.”
bloodbath, Carrison said.
The operating room floors Carrison’s career in
around the resuscitation beds medicine started late in life.
were covered in blood that While a midshipman at the
needed to be cleaned up for each United States Naval
ensuing patient. Academy, he sustained a
serious shoulder injury that
“There were an amazing amount of cut short his Navy career.
shrapnel wounds from the projectiles Afterward, he became an
bouncing off the ground, a lot of Orange County deputy
extremity injuries from that,” Carrison sheriff, then was recruited
said. “Extremity injuries were vascular, by the FBI, where he
which makes them life-threatening worked for five years.
injuries. We can leave the tourniquet on
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