Top-level trauma care, within close reach, saved lives in Las Vegas

FILE PHOTO: Medical bays are shown inside the Trauma center at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - From the field of sudden mass casualties to the unmistakable and devastating internal injuries of high-velocity gunfire, Sunday's shooting at a Las Vegas music festival bore the hallmarks of war. So did the medical response.

The life-saving effort was in many ways textbook battlefield medicine.