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Review by a committee with the American College of Surgeons clears the hospital to care for the most critically injured patients

Stewart who treated victims at the hospital on tuesday. he's a trauma surgeon and chair of the department -- he sadly responded to the shooting and said the springs texas of years ago. doctor thank you so much for being with me. what do you want me, would you want to viewers understand about what that experience was like on tuesday and what it has been like in the day's sense? >> i guess i would say from the trauma center standpoint when this happened as you mentioned we have drills we practiced and then we had previous experience with -- the things that we had action ice coming out of souther...

Tremendous amount of sorrow, anger, frustration, but to also look at the things that are positive and that went well. i would say that the most amazing team of people from those first ems responders who responded from all across the region immediately, the ability for people to immediately get to the scene. the regional trauma system, and its ability to coordinate that care. to load balance patients. to get them to go to -- our not -- to load bounce those patients, those are just amazingly positive things. it really shows the importance of having organized, regional trauma systems. a system wh...

Improving our trauma system, we have a great history of cooperation, communication across our region that counts is 27 square miles, but we set goals to get stuff in education training for everyone, we have a program to give patients whole blood right away, we committed ourselves to developing a regional pool blood program, we can get blood to the scene. those two things were really well, we were successful despite -- we were successful with our whole blood program, we got hole blood to the seed, to the hospital of uvalde, i believe that made a difference at least one of our patients lives. it...

Come together as a team. i'm very mindful to, for situations like this, there's a tremendous amount of sorrow, anger, frustration, but to also look at the things that are positive and that went well. i would say that the most amazing team of people from those first ems responders who responded from all across the region immediately, the ability for people to immediately get to the scene. the regional trauma system, and its ability to coordinate that care. to load balance patients. to get them to go to -- our not --