‘Trauma Alert’

RALEIGH, N.C. — Emergency medical technicians rolled a combative 43-year-old woman on a gurney through the brown double doors of the trauma bay at WakeMed-Raleigh Campus. A tourniquet dug into the skin on her left arm as she howled in pain and begged medical staff to stop treating her. Below the tourniquet, a deep laceration slashed diagonally across the patient’s arm. Thick, red blood pooled in the wound, shining under the trauma bay lights. The cut sliced through an artery, a potentially life-threatening injury. As the medical staff tried to get a better look at her wound, the patient flailed