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According to newspaper accounts, one 9mm bullet struck the pope in the right arm, exited and then wounded Ann Odred. 58, of Buffalo, N.Y., in the chest. The other bullet was said to have nicked the pope's left hand, passed through his abdomen, then hit the other American, Rose Hall, 21, in the elbow...
...handkerchief, a handkerchief!" Dropped in the turmoil, a police pistol lay incongruously beside Brady's head. McCarthy had been trained to try to block any shots at the President with his own body; when the firing began, he turned away from the limousine toward the assailant. Hit in the abdomen by a bullet that might well have struck the President, McCarthy whirled away from the gunman and fell prone. Patrolman Delahanty, a bullet lodged in his neck, lay screaming in pain near the rope...
That done, the trauma team could proceed more deliberately. X rays of the chest and abdomen were taken to try to lo cate the bullet; blood samples were analyzed for gases to help determine how much oxygen was getting into the blood. To see whether there was bleeding in the abdominal cavity as well, the team performed a procedure known as peritoneal lavage. Surgeons Benjamin Aaron and Joseph Giordano, who headed up the trauma team, made a small incision just below the President's navel, inserted a tube and infused several liters of fluid, filling the abdominal cavity. Then...
While visiting his brother, he got involved in a quarrel with his brother's girlfriend, who seized a butcher knife and stabbed him in the abdomen. Suspect arrested...
...filament of stereo speaker wire or touched the tip of a thorn. The needle was so fine and flexible that if not in the hands of an expert, it would have bent when meeting my skin rather than sticking. The next sets of needles went into my wrist, chest, abdomen and lower neck. I had been a pin cushion for 20 minutes before he at last applied his needles to the area I needed treated...