Bangalore: Vivek Shah, an Indian American surgeon turned out to be of great help to the Boston Blast victims, before the arrival of emergency physicians, reports IANS.

Shah, an orthopaedic surgeon at Boston's New England Baptist Hospital was a part of the marathon and was heading towards the finish line when the first blast happened. Even though he heard a loud explosive sound, Shah continued towards the finish line, unaware of what was happening. Then came the second blast, "all the runners and spectators started running towards us, away from the finish line. But my entire family, my wife, my daughter, my parents and my sister were all at the finish line. So I started running toward where I heard the boom," Shah told, as reported by local WCVB Boston.

"People with traumatic amputations, one leg, both legs, it just looked like everyone was in shock. If you look into the victims' eyes, they didn't really know where they were. I've never seen that quantity of injury in one place," Shah was quoted as saying, about the aftereffects of the blast.

He offered help to the people, "I just tried to see if anyone needed any emergent care, if anyone was bleeding out. We put on some makeshift tourniquets’’, says Shah.

But, it didn’t take much time for emergency physicians to arrive at the vicinity and provide help to the victims.

"As soon as the area was stable with lots of personnel, I tried to find my family, because my biggest concern was that one of the faces that I'd see would be theirs," Shah said.

Thankfully, his family was fine.

Shah said he was quite surprised by the fast, professional response from emergency volunteers and physicians and moreover there were two to three personnel for each victim by the time he left in search of his family.