As traffic worsens, more critically injured patients transported by helicopter
By Ari Cetron
The Connection Newspaper
Dr. Samir Fakhry is no stranger to seeing his patients flown in on a helicopter. He was trained by surgeons who served in Vietnam. Those doctors had soldiers airlifted out of war zones and impressed upon him the importance of quickly getting people to the proper treatment.
But 10 years ago, when he came to the Inova Regional Trauma Center at Inova Fairfax Hospital, he encountered a new phenomenon.
“I came here to a situation where the helicopter was used to overcome traffic,” said Fakhry, chief of trauma services at the center. ...
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