Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Last month, a gunman perched on the 32nd floor of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino opened fire on a crowd of concert-goers on the street below, killing dozens of people and wounding hundreds of others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Dr. Kevin Menes was the doctor in charge of the emergency room at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, which received more than 200 victims with penetrating gunshot wounds. He recently co-authored a piece in Emergency Physicians Monthly detailing the horrors he and his colleagues faced that night and how they handled the 215 patients who arrived at their doorstep.
Menes, who works the weekend nightshift, had been planning for years how he and the hospital would handle a mass casualty incident.
"It's an open secret that Las Vegas is a big target because of its large crowds," Menes said in the Emergency Physicians Monthly piece, which is described as "his story, as told to Judith Tintinalli, MD, MS," and edited by Logan Plaster.
When the shooting started, there were four emergency physicians, one trauma surgeon, and a trauma resident in the ER.
Menes himself was at the ambulance bay when the first police cars with
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Last month, a gunman perched on the 32nd floor of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino opened fire on a crowd of concert-goers on the street below, killing dozens of people and wounding hundreds of others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Dr. Kevin Menes was the doctor in charge of the emergency room at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, which received more than 200 victims with penetrating gunshot wounds. He recently co-authored a piece in Emergency Physicians Monthly detailing the horrors he and his colleagues faced that night and how they handled the 215 patients who arrived at their doorstep.
Menes, who works the weekend nightshift, had been planning for years how he and the hospital would handle a mass casualty incident.
"It's an open secret that Las Vegas is a big target because of its large crowds," Menes said in the Emergency Physicians Monthly piece, which is described as "his story, as told to Judith Tintinalli, MD, MS," and edited by Logan Plaster.
When the shooting started, there were four emergency physicians, one trauma surgeon, and a trauma resident in the ER.
Menes himself was at the ambulance bay when the first police cars with
READ THE REST @ cbsnews.com/news/inside-the-er-the-night-of-the-las-vegas-shooting
