chad wick smith the trauma surgeon on 1-866-978-4232ed in more staff to help. >> said this is not a drill or hoax, we have 20 plus gunshot wounds coming, we need you here and every answer i got was i'll be there. >> gunshot wounds big and small to all areas of the body. >> this is what you think of as a war scene. we had patients in every corner, medical staff filled every corner, doctors, nurses and techs and supstaff. all say that patients were evaluated and treated quickly. we went from the operating room to operating room. dr. smith says that sunday was the worst night of his career and the best because of how the team responded. angel is grateful and lucky to be alive. >> love you guys. >> many of the staff there talk about how calm and focused everybody was in triage and treating patients as a nurse i can tell you that is vital and likely comes from practicing drills and preparing for a mass casualty event like this horrible tragedy. >> thank you. >>> of course the vigils continue tonight in our area, at w 30 students at the university of delaware will gather on the south green to s

michael cheatham, chad wick smith, william haferon, mark levy, joseph ibrahim and matt lube. they saw 44 gun shotd patients at once. >> they brought the first patient in and then they brought another patient in and then they brought another patient in. and they said that there were possibly 20 more gun shot wound patients come in. at that point i called pie backup it was very chaotic. there were patients that were in pain. there were patients that were crying. there was staff that was very busy. but very task-oriented. >> we had gun shot wounds to the chest, gun shot wounds to the abdomen, to the eck dreamities. most fairly severe because of the high velocity project tiles. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, this was an assault rifle. and so this is a military weapon. so the bullets have a lot more energy to them, a lot more speed. and so they cause more tissue injury. >> there san individual who required multiple operations in the same 24 hour time period because of active ongoing bleeding. actually got operated on twice in the operating room and once in the icu. >> but y