A doctor involved in treating the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died in a gun battle with police said he spent about 15 minutes trying to save the man’s life.
Dr. David Schoenfeld said Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was unconscious and had so many penetrating wounds when he arrived at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center early Friday that it wasn’t clear which ones killed him, and a medical examiner will have to determine the official cause of death.
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Schoenfeld lives in the Boston suburb of Watertown and heard explosions from the shootout involving Tamerlan, his brother, Dzhokhar, and police early Friday. Schoenfeld called the hospital to alert staff they likely would be getting injured people, then rushed in to coordinate preparations.
“We had three or four trauma teams in different rooms set up and ready,” Schoenfeld said.
“From head to toe, every region of his body had injuries,” he said. “His legs and arms were intact — he wasn’t blown into a million pieces” — but he lost a pulse and was in cardiac arrest.
Schoenfeld said that he couldn’t discuss specific treatments except to say what is usually done in such circumstances, including putting a needle in the chest to relieve pressure that can damage blood vessels, and cutting open the chest and using rib-spreaders to let doctors drain blood.
Doctors pronounced him dead after their treatments failed.