Southern Nevada hospitals and medical personnel were able to respond to the massive number of injuries from the Oct. 1 Las Vegas mass shooting and did not seek help from out-of-state, an official said Monday.
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Nine dogs joined about 30 counselors from the American Red Cross to help calm and uplift those affected by the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting.
Diazepam, the anti-anxiety medicine prescribed for Las Vegas gunman less than four months before the mass shooting, has a deserved reputation as a Jekyll-and-Hyde drug, calming some and causing others to become more aggressive.
Las Vegas Valley hospitals report that many wounded at the Route 91 Harvest Festival Sunday night are still fighting for their lives.
A Henderson doctor wrote a prescription for the drug diazepam for Stephen Paddock, 64 of Mesquite and he filled it the same day in Reno, according to a state Prescription Monitoring Program record obtained by the Review-Journal.
“From our patients’ wounds you could tell a high-powered weapon had been used,” said one trauma surgeon who spent five straight hours in surgery after Sunday night’s mass shooting.
Locals and tourists line up in the middle of the night to do “what needs to be done.”