00:00Good morning everybody, my name is Dr. Aaron Robinson, A-A-R-O-N, R-O-B-I-N, S-O-N.
00:09I'm the Assistant Medical Director at Hennepin EMS, and I'm also an emergency physician at Hennepin Healthcare.
00:14Yesterday was an incredibly tragic day.
00:17The medical directors were paged out a couple minutes after this had happened,
00:20and part of our job is to relay information and be a liaison between the hospital systems and the providers on scene.
00:28And the earlier you activate a mass casualty incident, the better.
00:32We can mobilize resources faster, and we can get the folks and the equipment there that are needed to help best care for our most critical trauma patients.
00:41When I was en route, I contacted EMS command, and they had information from police that were going to be upwards of 20 victims or more.
00:49With that information and the resources that I knew that Hennepin Healthcare had provided,
00:53I activated the MCI within a couple of minutes after knowing that, just to get resources mobilized and to get the folks there that needed to be in the upstaff emergency department for patients to be received.
01:06In trauma, when you're talking about caring for a trauma patient in the pre-hospital setting out in the field, minutes and seconds matter.
01:12And our job in the pre-hospital setting is to perform life-saving interventions, like stopping the bleeding or helping somebody breathe.
01:20But every minute that a trauma patient spends on scene increases their chance of not having a good outcome and possibly dying.
01:28So I have a huge credit to the Minneapolis Police Department and the other first responders that entered the scene and secured it quickly.
01:35The scene was safe in a few minutes after the initial incident, and I credit our brave first responders for doing that.
01:41That allowed us to get the patients in and to get them to definitive care very, very quickly.
01:47Those swift actions undoubtedly saved the lives of many of those children.
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