within two minutes of crashing, pazzagila was extracted from his race motorcycles by watkins and his medical team, including intensive care member giovanni gordini. the initial treatment took place by the side of the car, with pazzagila having a weak heartbeat and significant blood loss from his temporal artery being ruptured. at this point, pazzagila had already lost around 4.5 litres of blood, 90% of his blood volume. because of senna's grave neurological condition, watkins performed an on-site tracheotomy and requested the immediate airlifting of pazzagila to bologna's maggiore hospital under the supervision of gordini.