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This hospital has established itself through the guidelines set forth of the american college of surgeons, and the state of texas, to meet a higher standard of preparation for availability of resources. it's a tremendous commitment put forth by hca health care and del sol medical center. so, we're ready to take care of a trauma situation. when faced with mote ifnotifica that a large number of patients are coming, it changes the situation. immediately, we begin the triage process. what's going on in our operating room? who really needs to be there? can we be ready for the first patients who are...

Triage process. what's going on in our operating room? who really needs to be there? can we be ready for the first patients going to arrive? we start at first confirmation of injured scene of patients. we need to be prepared four the number of providers it would take to provide their care. it is incredible how people came from home on their days off, dropped whatever they were doing and came here. doctors, nurses, support staff, administrators, everybody came immediately to del sol medical center to do our job and help us provide care. we had community surgeons come to the hospital on their da...

And most important is the initial condition of the patient. how do they look? are they awake? are they speaking? are they conscious? and their vital signs. vital signs are in what the word means, vital signs. so we look at those vital signs, and if we can easily improve them by giving them fluids, putting pressure or stopping bleeding, if we can improve that, opening the airway and helping them breathe, then those folks sometimes we can stabilize and then look at the others who may be more severely injured. there's a system we use, a triage protocol. our initial emphasis is we want to treat ev...

Rang, and i came back. >> sean: all hands on deck. being the level one trauma center, you get the most difficult cases. the people that were morea severely injured were all brought here. >> yes. the patients that came, these are injuries that we don't, we see frequently here but we don't see them at this volume. that evening, we had about 100 patients or so. >> 104 that night they came in. on top of our very busy trauma center that was already full that evening. the team did a great job. it really inspired on the professionalism andl skill. >> sean: i just want to go through who is here. who n...

Rang, and i came back. >> sean: all hands on deck. being the level one trauma center, you get the most difficult cases. the people that were morea severely injured were all brought here. >> yes. the patients that came, these are injuries that we don't, we see frequently here but we don't see them at this volume. that evening, we had about 100 patients or so. >> 104 that night they came in. on top of our very busy trauma center that was already full that evening. the team did a great job. it really inspired on the professionalism andl skill. >> sean: i just want to go through who is here. who n...