Gunshot victims with massive blood loss and failing lungs packed the emergency room of Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas late on the night of Oct. 1, 2017. A man had opened fire on a music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, spraying more than a thousand rounds of ammunition into the crowd, wounding hundreds.<\/p>\n
The hospital soon ran out of ventilators, machines that breathe for patients who cant. Dr. Kevin Menes, a critical care physician, had several patients in respiratory failure. Menes remembered that a colleague from his medical residency had studied how to connect multiple people to a single ventilator. When a respiratory therapist said to Menes, We dont have any more ventilators, I said, Its fine, he later recalled. He asked for tubing and began splitting one machines oxygen flow into two patients, saving their lives.<\/p>\n
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