Some of the Young Uvalde Victims Were Still Alive When Medics Reached Them In The Classroom But Why Weren’t They Immediately Taken to the Hospital?

RISKAlert #1646???????????????????????December 19, 2022?????????????????????Uvalde, Texas

Some of the Young Uvalde Victims Were Still Alive When Medics Reached Them In The Classroom But Why Weren’t They Immediately Taken to the Hospital?

A lack of coordination between law enforcement and medical staff further delayed critical care to victims who were still alive, according to a Joint report by the Texas Tribune, and?ProPublica. Uvalde shooting victims who were still alive when they were finally removed from the school building were not immediately treated or transported to a facility for the emergency care they needed, records obtained by news outlets show.

The biggest cause for the delay in medical care was the confoundingly slow?police response. But a lack of coordination and poor communication between law enforcement and medical staff led to confusion and further delayed critical emergency services to victims that could have potentially saved their lives.?One teacher and two children were still alive when medical staff reached them, the report said?Emergency responders carried Eva Mireles, a 44-year-old fourth-grade teacher, outside the school and placed her on the sidewalk as they administered CPR. One Border Patrol medic told investigators that there was no ambulance nearby, even though there were two parked 100 feet away, according to the report.

Ten minutes went by and several more ambulances came and went before Mireles was taken into one of them. ?Medics intubated her and tried to get her heart pumping, but they did not transport her to a hospital, the report said. They worked on her for another 40 minutes inside the ambulance before she was declared dead.

None of ?5 medical helicopters that responded to the shooting transported any victims from the classrooms where the shooter opened fire. Medics treating a boy who fit the description of 10-year-old Xavier Lopez rushed him to a field outside the school building after hearing that people injured were being airlifted to University Hospital in San Antonio. After waiting 11 minutes for a helicopter, they decided to drive to the hospital in an ambulance. The ambulance rerouted to a different hospital, where Xavier was declared dead. A helicopter reached the school eight minutes after the ambulance carrying Xavier left, the report said. "If the cops had done their job, the medics might’ve had a chance," Xavier's dad, Abel Lopez, told the Tribune.

Jacklyn "Jackie" Cazares, 9, was also still alive when medics reached her in the classroom. The report said she was quickly placed in an ambulance but died on the way to the hospital.

“With every news story on Uvalde, the cover-up unravels," Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said. "We have evidence that the complete lack of command, control, and communication led to a failed law enforcement response to kill the shooter and a failed medical response to save the children and teachers. DPS failures and delays by first responders resulted in lives lost.”

The district introduced new security measures, such as higher fencing and more security cameras on campuses, ahead of the start of the academic year in August. But families in Uvalde criticized the plan and cast doubt on its efficacy, the?Tribune reported.

A recent security audit showed continued lapses in school security. On Monday, an inspector conducting a safety audit of schools in Uvalde entered a school cafeteria through a door that did not lock properly, the district superintendent?said?at a school board meeting.

He declined to say which schools were subject to the security audit.

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