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Saving Detective Breda: surgery team who brought officer back from death
The Sydney Morning Herald
By Lucy Cormack
24 March 2018 1:09 pm
Injury designed to kill
It was an injury designed to kill, Dr Granger said of the wound inflicted with a 15-centimetre combat blade.
It had gone through the side of him, through the kidney, through the liver, through his diaphragm and up into his lungs. The entire blade had been inserted to the hilt.
An average adult male of Detective Sergeant Bredas stature has five to six litres of blood circulating in his body. Over the course of the next six hours, the 45-year-old would lose his entire blood count three times; sending up to 15 litres of blood gurgling down the drain.
Ask any of the doctors present that day how many people helped save the life of Detective Sergeant Breda and they will struggle to give the exact number.
There were the paramedics who were first to reach him at the pub and brought him to St Vincents emergency department.
There was the departments public holiday skeleton staff who stabilised and transferred him to the operating theatre, while he remained conscious, in just under 20 minutes.
All this was before the arrival of four surgeons, two anaesthetists, their nurses and registrars, the hospitals blood bank and the haematology department.
There also were the breathless porters who ran units of blood to the theatre in a desperate effort to keep pace with the rapid blood loss.
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