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Monday was anything but a slow start to the work week for 150 UCLA staffers from 28 different departments at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

At 8:55 a.m., the first patient injured in a plane crash at Los Angeles International Airport was wheeled into the Emergency Department. The 25-year-old man was moaning in pain and bleeding profusely from several open fractures. His blood pressure was dangerously low.


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In the hospital's command center, Dr. Rick Harrison, UCLA chief medical officer, calls for updates from departments as he takes charge as incident commander.

By 9 a.m., more plane crash victims began arriving by ambulance — an unconscious woman with head wounds, a young man with bleeding gashes and a high heart rate, a youngster with a gaping knee laceration, a woman with third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body, a crying patient with broken ribs having trouble breathing.

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