MEDICAL STAFF: “Yeah, looks like it’s a dirty bomb. We’ve gotten 30 patients so far, all self-referred, mostly walking wounded. They were all contaminated with radiation, no sign of any chemical use. HAZMAT just contacted us to confirm there’s radiation at the site but no chemical agent was detected. EMS just radio’d in about a critical contaminated patient with a pneumothorax. Ok, out.”
EMS: “This is the patient we called you about with the sucking chest wound. The needle decompression worked for a while, but now he’s not responding very well.”
SECOND REPONSER: “We’ve got contamination here, looks fairly low levels.”
EMS: BP’s 90/60. “Respirations 30 per minute and shallow with retractions. He was maybe 50 feet from the dirty bomb explosion. He’s got a deep wound on the right calf. Sinus tachycardia around 130.”
MEDICAL STAFF: “We’ve need to treat this chest wound stat. Get his clothes off before we get him to trauma.”
MEDICAL STAFF: “Let’s go, let’s go.”