Over the years, i have seen people stabbed with a variety of items. Trying to predict which items, impaled in which parts of the body, would be the most debilitating is pretty much impossible.
2 patients come to mind: 1. A patient was attacked by his girlfriend witha machete. She swung at him form over her head and brought the machete down on area between his neck and left shoulder and got stuck. When we got to the house, the guy was walking around, trying to pry the machete free (good thing he did not as when they removed it in the OR, they found it had cut a major vein, but by being stuck, it had kept bleeding under control. 2. A patient was stabbed with a pair of scissors in the chest. When we got there, the scissors would move every time his heart beat - this told us the scissors were very close to, if not impaled in, to his heart. Again, he was walking around - obviously pissed he got stabbed. When they took him to the OR, the found the scissors went in between his heart and the upper arch of his aorta - and missed everything vital. They simply removed the scissors, stitched him up and sent him home the next day. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Judith has been doing some editorial for a fan fiction writer and I've > been 'riding shotgun' with her. Every now and again the author writes > something that just doesn't work or needs to be more fleshed out and I > automatically go into a research/writing mode. > > The first article we released was on how thrown knives interact with a > character. We wanted to avoid the 'badass' scene where someone has a > knife thrown at them and the just leave it in their arm while driving > off on their Harley. It's not a full medical book, just something to > help writers make their scenes a little better. > > If you want to look it over, comment on it, flame us, etc. you can > find the article here: > > http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7336854/1/A_Stab_in_the_Arm > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:342118 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
