Two patients are still in critical condition at Boston Medical Center, and 10 are in serious condition, said one doctor.
Dr. Peter Burke, chief of trauma surgery at the South End hospital, said Wednesday that his hospital still has a total of 19 patients. Eight of them will be operated on today.
“We are looking to discharge one or two of these patients as well today,” he said.
According to the Boston Globe, a 5-year-old boy is one of the two in critical condition, while the other is a man in his 60s.
Burke said initially, the hospital had 10 or 11 critical condition patients – and now there are only two.
“Most patients are making good progress, moving through the process,” he said.
Burke said the hospital’s next steps are to re-evaluate patients’ wounds.
“Because of the capricious nature of the trauma, you can’t tell exactly all the damage that may have happened, and you need to look at things over time,” he said. “So time is a really important concept here in terms of wounds and what happens to them.”
Tufts Medical Center has treated 14 patients with injuries relating to the marathon, and so far, seven of them have been discharged. Seven patients remain hospitalized at Tufts, but none of them are in critical condition, nor do they have amputations, according to a hospital spokesperson.
On Tuesday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital said they were confident no further lives would be lost.
Two bombs exploded within seconds of each other near the Boylston Street finish line Monday, killing three people and injuring 176. Many injuries occurred from a variety of sharp objects lodged in the body – ranging from shrapnel and metallic fragments to pellets and nails.
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