Doctors attending to long-distance runners usually see overheating and dehydration, but on Monday after the bombings on the Boston Marathon finish line the injuries were so gruesome that some had no choice but to amputate once healthy legs.
Surgeons at Boston's biggest hospitals raced against the clock to save the lives of spectators and athletes who came in with legs so mangled that bones were sticking out and some limbs were hanging only by shreds of muscle.
"If these victims had spent even a few more minutes at the scene they would not be alive today," Alasdair Conn, chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital, said on Tuesday.
A team of 20 Massachusetts General surgeons, including one who had himself just completed the 26.2 mile (42.2 km) race, amputated four legs above the knee. At Boston Medical Center, surgeons performed five amputations and at Brigham & Women's there was one....
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07:22 AM, Apr 17, 2013
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in Durg district of Chhattisgarh and died on Tuesday, police said. The girl, who was dumped in a ground adjacent to her house here with serious injuries on Tuesday morning, succumbed to her injuries in a government hospital in the evening, they said. ...
02:45 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Even before it has started, the sixth season of the league has seen franchises hit by several significant player injuries. ...
07:53 AM, Mar 30, 2013
The death toll from a tornado that swept through some 25 villages in eastern Bangladesh, rose to 23 with rescuers finding three more bodies in debris, a day after the deadly storm which also left nearly 500 people injured. The storm which hit the area on Friday, left a trail of destruction in 20 villages of Brahmanbaria sadar, Bijoynagar and Akhaura upazilas. ...
06:35 AM, Mar 24, 2013
A police official was shot at and another attacked with a knife by two motorcycle-borne assailants in Ghaziabad, police said on Sunday. The two police officials, Radhelal and Amarnath, were conducting regular security checking in Gandhi Nagar area under Sihani Gate police station when the two assailants attacked them, Senior Superintendent of Police Nitin Tiwari said. ...
06:40 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Many call India the head injury capital of the world. Nearly 2 lakh Indians die every year of head injuries, according to NIMHANS. The simplest preventive is getting people to wear helmets. That's the key message that came out of retreat in Jodhpur. ...
12:33 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader N Chandrababu Naidu suffered minor injuries when a makeshift dais collapsed while he was garlanding a statue in Guntur district Thursday, a party leader has said. The incident took place at Kolakaluru village in Guntur district during Naidu's 'padyatra' (march). ...
03:46 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Seven persons were killed and 40 others injured after a commuter-van from a mine company exploded in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The mishap occurred on Friday in Shuangyashan City of the district of Lingdong, officials said. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 12, 2013
In a shocker, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl was seriously injured after allegedly being thrown from the top of a building by her father who has been arrested, police said on Thursday. Superintendent of Police YS Ravikumar said the man Ramesh had been torturing the baby after birth and tried to kill her, as he wished for a boy. ...
09:13 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: All four of the accused in the Jind gangrape case have been arrested, police said on Sunday. The accused included a woman relative of one of the accused, who, said the police, stood guard while the incident took place. The girl set herself on fire on Saturday evening, unable to take the trauma of the incident. She succumbed to over 95 per cent burn injuries at a hospital....
01:51 PM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Kite flying, especially on Independence Day, may be a tradition, but it leaves hundreds of birds dead every year. However, now they have some hope as two brothers from Old Delhi have become their saviours. Nadeem Shehzaad and his NGO 'Wildlife Rescue' have treated over three thousand injured birds in the last eight years. Nadeem blames the use of the maanjha - or the glass-coated string used in...
08:17 AM, Aug 21, 2012
Bangalore: An 11-year-old girl, who was set ablaze by nine persons while she was on her way to school, has succumbed to burn injuries at a hospital, police said. The fifth standard girl breathed her last at the state-run Victoria Hospital this afternoon, they said. All the nine were arrested yesterday and remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Personal enmity with the girl's father was suspected to be the reason...
01:45 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Washington: An Indian-origin woman in the US set her husband on fire and locked him in a bathroom, after promising him a hot oil massage, police said. Shriya Biman Patel, 25, has been arrested on charges of first-degree felony aggravated assault and arson and booked into the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas. An Austin police statement said officers answering a family disturbance call at a north Austin apartment on...
08:40 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Mumbai: Beautiful, strong, brave and paralysed waist-down, Morgan Van Breda, a 32 year old Canadian woman is cycling through India to raise funds and awareness about spinal cord injuries. At the age of 24, Morgan suffered a T-12 injury, when a soccer post collapsed on her back, shattering her T 11/12 vertebrae. The injury left her paralysed waist down. Doctors declared she will never be able to walk again. But...
11:12 AM, Feb 25, 2011
New Delhi: For the first time ever, US researchers will be using human embryonic stem cells for treatment of spinal cord injuries. The stems cells were tested successfully in rats enabling them to once again walk and run. This is the first phase of clinical trials which will determine the safety of stem cell treatment. It will enroll up to 10 patients who have suffered spinal cord injuries, injecting them...
07:46 PM, Oct 12, 2010
Doctors managed to remove a six-feet-long iron rod from his abdomen. ...
10:32 AM, Mar 13, 2009
Catastrophic injuries to female athletes have increased over the years. ...
12:16 PM, Aug 12, 2008
Mohun Bagan and Sporting Club de Goa are facing an injury crisis ahead of the Federation Cup final on Sunday. ...
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