One of the first pediatricians on the scene was Dr. Cecilio Eck and this morning after he and his colleagues had gotten control of the situation he spoke to 7 News about having to choose which child to treat depending on the severity of their conditions.

Dr. Cecelio Eck, Pediatrician
"Well, I was actually working at the clinic, my clinic at KHMH yesterday and Dr Tracy Nicholas one of our administrative docs came to my clinic and garnered me from the clinic she said Doc we have a situation of some kids coming in with similar symptoms and we are unsure of what they took, so I went with her um, and when I went into the emergency room initially there were about 12 to 15 kids in varying degrees of I will say stupor, some were very uptounded not breathing or having difficulty breathing, we had some who were agitated, we had some who were trembling, all of them were, seemed very out of it or drunk like, um, so that was. The situation that I went into."

"The Emergency room trauma team did an excellent job, the callout for medical personnel was triggered and um, all available hands were on deck so when I arrived each individual child had one person next to her, what we did was or what I did was initially look for the most severe ones and the team actually would direct us and say Dr. Eck this one needs your help, Dr. Ochoa and Dr Chulin arrived shortly thereafter and they started, they pointed them to the most severely affected kids, thankfully with this drug it's not very very severe or life threatening in any of the kids and I give thanks to God for that. They didn't take a lot or the amount that they took required only two admissions overnight but it's not. Only what they took but their sizes and I think what the team at A&E did initially, each kid was put on a bed, we checked their oxygen saturation levels and remember that this drug acute marijuana intoxication can cause respiratory depression. So, we monitored that in each one of the kids, once it fell below 95 those were put in a specific area of the ward that had oxygen availability and they were started on Oxygen, um we started IV on each one of them an IV infusion and gave simple fluids and this is what is called supportive care, monitoring for any deterioration and be prepared to intubate and control the airways if necessary."