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Laurie Shertz
June 25, 2023
The 16 that have been labelled potentially survivable may or may not have survived with more rapid care. That is the assumption of the group that looked at their autopsy data. None bleed out from a torniquetable wound. Four labelled as having extremity GSWs might have been saved with wound packing. It’s difficult to know what to do with the five with lung injuries and 4 bowel injuries.
Unfortunately, getting the autopsy data has traditionally been very difficult, so we are decades behind in putting together the data base of what kill people in these kinds of events.
Dana Hudson
June 24, 2023
It’s too bad that the casualties were not seen to sooner, as it seems that at least 16 could’ve definitely survived if they’d been evaluated and managed in a more timely manner. The lack of information regarding the casualties’ actual causes of death in that event is disturbing and obviously not helpful, but it also seems suspicious as well. If most of the casualties who died had gunshot wounds to their extremities, then it makes it seem that they bled to death unnecessarily, because I thought that gunshot wounds to their extremities would be giving them more of a chance to survive, if the bleeding were stopped in time.
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The 16 that have been labelled potentially survivable may or may not have survived with more rapid care. That is the assumption of the group that looked at their autopsy data. None bleed out from a torniquetable wound. Four labelled as having extremity GSWs might have been saved with wound packing. It’s difficult to know what to do with the five with lung injuries and 4 bowel injuries.
Unfortunately, getting the autopsy data has traditionally been very difficult, so we are decades behind in putting together the data base of what kill people in these kinds of events.
It’s too bad that the casualties were not seen to sooner, as it seems that at least 16 could’ve definitely survived if they’d been evaluated and managed in a more timely manner. The lack of information regarding the casualties’ actual causes of death in that event is disturbing and obviously not helpful, but it also seems suspicious as well. If most of the casualties who died had gunshot wounds to their extremities, then it makes it seem that they bled to death unnecessarily, because I thought that gunshot wounds to their extremities would be giving them more of a chance to survive, if the bleeding were stopped in time.