Police delays during Texas school shooting may have deprived children of lifesaving care: experts

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More than an hour elapsed between the time the shooter entered the school and the time law enforcement officers breached a locked classroom and killed him.

Two family members of one of the victims killed in Tuesday's shooting at Robb Elementary School comfort each other during a prayer vigil in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Richard Winton and Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times

. At least 17 children were hospitalized with injuries, though it’s unclear how many of those survived.more than an hour elapsed between the time the shooter entered the school McCraw said the commander at the scene, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, believed — wrongly — in the moment that officers had more time because the incident had transitioned from an active-shooter situation to one with a barricaded subject with “no kids at risk.”

Although it is not yet known whether those students were ultimately among the victims, the injured or the survivors, police and medical experts said that in most instances, the sooner a patient can get some form of medical attention, the better the chances at pulling through. According to Dr. Demetrios Demetriades, a professor of surgery and director of trauma at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the mortality rate of a patient increases by about 10% for every 10 minutes of delayed bleeding control.

 

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