Incoming Sufferers

The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Convenience is anticipated to arrive in Haiti on Wednesday, but has obtained two critically hurt earthquake victims by helicopter through the USS Carl Vinson, an plane carrier late Tuesday.  Meanwhile, as VOA's Suzanne Presto reports from onboard the Convenience, medical teams http://www.obdii.co.uk/cables-and-connectors/obdii-adapter-obdii-shell-for-wholesale are performing drills http://www.obdii.co.uk/car-diagnostic-tools-c-2/mercedes-benz-pixel-repair-tools to prepare for influx of clients.
It was a 40-second elevator ride in the Comfort's flight deck to casualty receiving.  This patient is 37-years-old and unconscious.  His pelvis was crushed during last week's earthquake. 
The medical team cuts open his shirt, checks his airway, calls for X-rays and supplies.  They work with a sense of urgency in this hot space, shifting to make way for specialists and equipment. 
 
Navy Corpsman Yves Henry strides beside the gurney as the medical team hurries the patient down the corridor, arriving at the intensive care unit.  Henry speaks Creole and today he serves as a translator.  But his patient is unconscious, so when someone calls for a hand to hold a monitor, he springs into surgical technician mode, grabbing hold of the monitor's handle so the medics can see the screen.  The patient's kidneys are failing.
 
There are chest compressions, calls for medication.  There is the call no one wants to hear.
The doctors and nurses raise their hands in the air and step back in the bed.  Henry lowers his head and shakes it. 
 
The exercise was role-play, preparing the medics for the flood of clients who will be helicoptered in through the U.S. plane carrier Carl Vincent and from triage centers in Port-au-Prince. 
Soon the elevators and corridors will be full of earthquake victims.  They will be rushed from casualty receiving to surgery or to X-ray or to intensive care, and, ideally, to the recovery ward.  The drills help the personnel function as a team in this adrenaline-fueled atmosphere.  They also prepare the medics for