ORLANDO, Fla. – As Orlando marks 10 years since the Pulse nightclub shooting, trauma surgeons with Orlando Health are reflecting on the blood donors and community support that helped save lives in the hours and days after the tragedy.
For some survivors, the scale of the medical response is measured in the amount of blood they received while fighting to stay alive.
“I was shot four times, and I received over 40 units of blood,” recalled Pulse survivor Jeff Xcentric one year after the shooting…