Snippet #2536163

"Hey girl. Stay with me. Stay awake just a bit longer." He gently patted her cheeks and when she kept drifting off he rubbed her sternum hard with his knuckles sending new sparks of pain coursing across her chest and to her brain. He evaluated her in total now in his mind, pausing only briefly before pulling out a 1000 cc IV bag. He tore the outer bag open and connected the tubing and the drip chamber to the bag's administration port. "Stay awake for me. Stay with me.", he continued to repeat over and over again. She had lost too much blood. He needed to get some fluids into her or she would crash.

He prepared the catheter after temporarily tourniqueting her other arm and got a blood flash the first time. He pressed the catheter into her arm with his thumb while he taped it down and hung the bag on a nearby piece of rebar before connecting the tubing to the catheter and after clearing the air out of the tubing.

A moment passed as he moved up to her head and ran his fingers through her dirty, blood-matted hair. He then moved down her body, rapping his hands around her neck as if he were choking her but gently feeling around her neck and at the back before moving down her body and checking for missed injuries. The ground was so uneven that he could not risk turning her until the back board arrived least she have a spinal injury and he cause more damage. He could not raise her feet to stave off shock for the same reason. The only precautions he could take at this point was to keep her conscious and blanket her with his coat to keep her warm.

She did not have a head injury that he could tell. Her irises were even though she showed signs of serious shock. She was shivering in the cold and because of the blood loss. Five more minutes would pass until a black van pulled up. During this time Bowen would periodically glance up at the IV bag to make sure it was dripping and continuously take precautions to insure she stayed awake.

When Barnes and Torres got there they assisted Bowen in securing the girl to the back board and two of them carried her out, the third carrying the IV bag. They loaded her into the back of the van. It was no ambulance. It looked more like a small swat van on the inside. Their destination would be Cornell's where she would recieve the treatment she needed. Barnes would take the sedan to meet back up with Chloë. Bowen and the man he had called Torres would take the van and Re'Altarm to the medical center. She would indeed live.