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July 15th, 2011
09:59 AM ET
U.S. hospital work prepares military docs for battlefield injuriesFor a special look at "Battlefield Breakthroughs: Helping at Home," tune in to "Sanjay Gupta, M.D.," Saturday-Sunday 7:30 a.m. ET The phone does not stop ringing at Baltimore’s shock trauma center. A trauma tech picks up one of the calls. “Stabbing, 10 to 15 by land,” he yells out in the emergency room, citing how far away the victim is from the hospital. Every day dozens of trauma patients are wheeled into their trauma bays. Some are accident victims, others are critically ill. But right alongside the civilian trauma doctors, nurses and techs are military personnel.
July 8th, 2011
03:30 PM ET
CPR for your brainFor a special look at "Battlefield Breakthroughs: Helping at Home," tune in to "Sanjay Gupta, M.D.," Saturday-Sunday 7:30 a.m. ET From CNN’s Barbara Starr and Jennifer Rizzo Soldiers in full combat gear file into a hot, deafeningly loud, and dark room. Fake blood covers the floor and drips off the plastic body parts that are scattered about. Smoke and strobe lights mix with heavy metal music and the sound of recorded screams. After weeks of behavioral therapy for traumatic brain injuries, the soldiers are facing this intense simulation to show that they can get back to their daily work—combat. Staff Sgt. Aaron Potter is among the group of patients at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, going through this final assessment. “It’s probably the closest you can get without having the real thing. The smoke, the smells, the noises, the injuries,” Potter says after exiting the simulation. |
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