Medical video on effects of being shot

[Isaac-1]

I just found this video on youtube of a doctor giving a presintation on the effects of being shot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tku8YI68-JA&feature=endscreen&NR=1

quality is not great, but there is a lot of information, some rather gruesome photos

 

[nola_]

Nice post. In regards to a gunshot wound, please remember to apply pressure to the entrance/exit site.

 

[dwr461]

I've watched this before. He was lecturing paramedics. It was one of the best lectures I've ever watched talking about handgun wounds and mortality.

In regards to how to treat a GSW. Call 911. Then mess around the bandages and stuff. Ultimately the less time it takes to get to a trauma surgeon and the surgical team is the biggest difference in survivability. Believe it or not most but not all handgun wounds really don't produce much blood outside the body unless they hit a major artery or vein in an extremety. You'd be amazed just how little blood comes out when compared to the internal bleeding for torso impacts and extremity GSW's with major blood vessels involved. The bleeding inside can't be stopped without surgery.

Dave

 

[Isaac-1]

2 of the big things mentioined in the video are that you can't tell how serious a bullet wound is in the field, you don't know if your looking at 2 entry wounds or an entry and exit, you don't know the angle the shot was fired from, etc.

The other thing was people that are shot need an operting room to stop the bleeding not an emergency room, it goes on to say that 6 out of 7 people that are shot survive, and their is about a .3% drop in survival rate for every minute from the time a person is shot until they get into an operating room.

 

[tupperware9mm]

Thanks for posting that was very interesting.

 

[JBP55]

Interesting.

 

[Isaac-1]

The sad part about this video is that I think a lot of people here will not take the time to watch it given its length

 

[SpeedRacer]

The sad part about this video is that I think a lot of people here will not take the time to watch it given its length

For them here's the Cliffs Notes: handguns suck at killing people

 

[JNieman]

For them here's the Cliffs Notes: handguns suck at killing people

And given sufficient penetration, caliber means very, very, very little, after a certain level.

 

[madwabbit]

And given sufficient penetration, caliber means very, very, very little, after a certain level.

shot placement > penetration > caliber