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Long period. operating room today. they underwent a number of unfortunately the deceased will procedures by a number of remain at the scene until the different specialists. scene is processed properly for and it's expected that over the course of the next several days evidentiary purposes to be we will need to do ongoing gathered for later prosecution. the state of texas will be the procedures on many of the lead agency or entity patients. i think the community of el paso prosecuting this has a nexus at should be very proud of the trauma system that is here on a hate crime. their behalf to tak...

System. in one sense, the time of the incident sort of played into our response. yesterday we happened to be having our annual -- normal credentialing review by the american college of surgeons verification review team. it just so happened that we had seven trauma surgeons here when we got the call about the mass casualty event, the active shooter. which is great, except a trauma surgeon without this and all of the staff is really just a set of hands. we're pretty useless. so how did this all come about? so the -- i have to say that, you know, we in south texas are the beneficiaries of an extr...

>> i can hear you. >> thank you so much for getting on the phone. can you give us an update on the patients you received yesterday? >> yes. we received nine patients. we had one patient pass away, a child, and we have two patients who were discharged and then three children, two -- three children still in the hospital, two are in critical condition, one in serious and we have three adults, one critical and two in serious condition. >> can you describe their injuries? >> no, i don't think it would be appropriate to describe their injuries right now but i will say that the patients were, you kno...

Response. yesterday we happened to be having our annual or normal credentialling review by the american college of surgeons verification review team. so happened that we had seven trauma surgeons here when we got the first call about the mass casualty event. which is great, except a trauma surgeon without this and without all the staff is really just a set of hands. we're useless. so how did this come about? so i have to say that, you know, we in south texas are the beneficiaries of an extremely sophisticated trauma system that is basically the southwest texas regional advisory council for tra...

And three children in the hospital. their conditions are from serious to very critical. we actually had a couple of adults and a child that was, as i discussed, died in the hospital. i should also mentioned that this is not just university hospital. our hospital is part of a bigger trauma system. part of that system actually includes the san antonio military medical center, which is the other adult 1 trauma center in the city. brooke army medical center saw eight patients. so again, this collaboration is richly supported by the community and actually is really the foundation of the trauma syst...