Officer Hernandez
This is so sad. I hate it when cops die. What a waste. I feel a little tacky talking about how I wanted to fuck him before, but I'm not going to take it down. He's still a hottie.
The New York Times
Extraordinary Medical Effort Can't Stop the Deadly Work of 3 Bullets
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and JANON FISHER
By any measure, it was an extraordinary effort to save the life of Officer Eric Hernandez.
Quick work by emergency workers and skilled hands in the operating room kept him from dying in the minutes and hours after he was shot three times in a White Castle parking lot in the Bronx on Jan. 28.
In the days that followed, Officer Hernandez underwent at least four operations, including the amputation of a leg. Police officers doubled as deliverymen to make sure an enormous supply of blood was on hand for him at the hospital.
That he survived so long with such severe injuries was testament to his youth and great physical conditioning, doctors said of the officer, who stood 6 feet tall, weighed 190 pounds and played running back on the Police Department football team.
"It was heroic to say the least," Deputy Chief Charles Martinez said yesterday. "A normal person would not have survived as long."
Officer Hernandez, 24, who was off duty when a fellow officer shot him at 5 a.m. in the White Castle parking lot, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital within minutes of the shooting.
Officer Hernandez had been drinking, blood tests showed, and was shot as he held his service revolver over a man he mistakenly thought had been part of a group that had beaten him inside the restaurant.
Three 9-mm bullets struck him, once in the abdomen, and once in each thigh. The bullets in his legs severed major arteries, and the one in his stomach tore apart his intestines.
Over 11 days, doctors pumped more than 300 pints of blood product into him to try to replace the blood he had lost and continued to lose from the torn arteries. A man his size normally has about 10 pints of blood in his body.
Doctors removed a large portion of his colon and amputated his right leg at the knee. His kidneys were so badly damaged that he was put on dialysis. His eye socket had been broken, probably from the beating.
The Fire Department medical workers who arrived at the White Castle that morning knew instantly that his wounds could be fatal, and that without the equipment available in a hospital, trying to stop the profuse bleeding on the scene would be a waste of time.
Dr. Stephen DiRusso, the chief of surgery at St. Barnabas, said that Officer Hernandez would have died quickly had the transport time been any longer.
Dr. DiRusso said on that first night that the officer had suffered "extremely, extremely grave injuries."
He was placed on life support, as Dr. Fausto Vinces, the hospital's director of trauma surgery, tried desperately to stop the arterial bleeding, but that proved to be extremely difficult.
Damage was so great to the arteries and veins in the pelvis that led to his legs that blood had spilled into his lower abdomen. In a first operation, the surgeons clamped the aorta, the body's main artery, and tried compressing the ruptured vessels. When that did not stop the bleeding, they operated again. Still, the bleeding continued, hospital officials said.
The only chance of saving Officer Hernandez was to have a large reserve of blood on hand, so police officers were dispatched to get some from an Upper Manhattan blood bank. Later, police helicopters flew back and forth between the hospital and a Westchester County blood bank. When that was not enough, officers transported more from a blood bank on Long Island.
Three days after the shooting, Officer Hernandez had undergone four operations, including a six-hour procedure to remove his right leg. The ruptured arteries had disrupted circulation in that leg for so long that the leg muscles had become starved of blood and oxygen and then wasted away, leaving surgeons no choice but to amputate.
The judgment to amputate had been a hard one for the doctors to make. On Sunday, eight days after the shooting, surgeons decided it would not be necessary to amputate the left leg as well. But the next day, his body was racked by seizures.
Yesterday, at 1:03 p.m., after a CAT scan showed he was brain dead, Officer Hernandez's family decided to remove him from life support.
The New York Times
Extraordinary Medical Effort Can't Stop the Deadly Work of 3 Bullets
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and JANON FISHER
By any measure, it was an extraordinary effort to save the life of Officer Eric Hernandez.
Quick work by emergency workers and skilled hands in the operating room kept him from dying in the minutes and hours after he was shot three times in a White Castle parking lot in the Bronx on Jan. 28.
In the days that followed, Officer Hernandez underwent at least four operations, including the amputation of a leg. Police officers doubled as deliverymen to make sure an enormous supply of blood was on hand for him at the hospital.
That he survived so long with such severe injuries was testament to his youth and great physical conditioning, doctors said of the officer, who stood 6 feet tall, weighed 190 pounds and played running back on the Police Department football team.
"It was heroic to say the least," Deputy Chief Charles Martinez said yesterday. "A normal person would not have survived as long."
Officer Hernandez, 24, who was off duty when a fellow officer shot him at 5 a.m. in the White Castle parking lot, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital within minutes of the shooting.
Officer Hernandez had been drinking, blood tests showed, and was shot as he held his service revolver over a man he mistakenly thought had been part of a group that had beaten him inside the restaurant.
Three 9-mm bullets struck him, once in the abdomen, and once in each thigh. The bullets in his legs severed major arteries, and the one in his stomach tore apart his intestines.
Over 11 days, doctors pumped more than 300 pints of blood product into him to try to replace the blood he had lost and continued to lose from the torn arteries. A man his size normally has about 10 pints of blood in his body.
Doctors removed a large portion of his colon and amputated his right leg at the knee. His kidneys were so badly damaged that he was put on dialysis. His eye socket had been broken, probably from the beating.
The Fire Department medical workers who arrived at the White Castle that morning knew instantly that his wounds could be fatal, and that without the equipment available in a hospital, trying to stop the profuse bleeding on the scene would be a waste of time.
Dr. Stephen DiRusso, the chief of surgery at St. Barnabas, said that Officer Hernandez would have died quickly had the transport time been any longer.
Dr. DiRusso said on that first night that the officer had suffered "extremely, extremely grave injuries."
He was placed on life support, as Dr. Fausto Vinces, the hospital's director of trauma surgery, tried desperately to stop the arterial bleeding, but that proved to be extremely difficult.
Damage was so great to the arteries and veins in the pelvis that led to his legs that blood had spilled into his lower abdomen. In a first operation, the surgeons clamped the aorta, the body's main artery, and tried compressing the ruptured vessels. When that did not stop the bleeding, they operated again. Still, the bleeding continued, hospital officials said.
The only chance of saving Officer Hernandez was to have a large reserve of blood on hand, so police officers were dispatched to get some from an Upper Manhattan blood bank. Later, police helicopters flew back and forth between the hospital and a Westchester County blood bank. When that was not enough, officers transported more from a blood bank on Long Island.
Three days after the shooting, Officer Hernandez had undergone four operations, including a six-hour procedure to remove his right leg. The ruptured arteries had disrupted circulation in that leg for so long that the leg muscles had become starved of blood and oxygen and then wasted away, leaving surgeons no choice but to amputate.
The judgment to amputate had been a hard one for the doctors to make. On Sunday, eight days after the shooting, surgeons decided it would not be necessary to amputate the left leg as well. But the next day, his body was racked by seizures.
Yesterday, at 1:03 p.m., after a CAT scan showed he was brain dead, Officer Hernandez's family decided to remove him from life support.
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