The frantic, bloody hours in a Las Vegas hospital as doctors rushed to save lives
LAS VEGAS - The chatter from a police radio instantly caught the attention of Kevin Menes, the senior doctor on duty Sunday night at one of the busiest emergency rooms in Las Vegas.
"Automatic fire." "Look for the shooter."
As more information came in - country music concert, Mandalay Bay on the Strip - his mind started spinning.
Menes had rehearsed this scenario in his head.
Four ER doctors and one trauma surgeon were on duty that night at Sunrise Medical Center. Menes needed more anesthesiologists, more trauma surgeons, more technicians, more nurses.
He needed more gauze, more chest tubes, more operating rooms left open, more gurneys and wheelchairs lined up in the concrete bay where ambulances would soon
