Amid America’s grim epidemic of gun violence, doctors are learning new ways to save gunshot victims’ lives.
Doctors who specialize in trauma care say they expect relatively good outcomes for all of these patients. "I am certain those that made it to the hospital [in Orlando], unless they had devastating injuries, will survive," said M. Margaret Knudson, a professor of surgery at the University of California San Francisco.
One surprising reason for hope: a new approach to trauma care honed by military doctors on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan that's been translated for wounded civilians here.
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