Be careful please

[Sleep profit]

Local news reports a male attendee at a high school graduation accidentally shot him self in the leg while attempting to put his jacket on    No one else was hurt  subject Died    Please stay safe. 

Edited May 16, 2023 by Sleep profit

[FUJIMO]

He hit his femoral artery with a safety free 38 derringer he was pocket carrying. Like one would keys or loose change. He was DOA when he arrived at Fort Loudon Medical

[Sleep profit]

36 minutes ago, FUJIMO said:

He hit his femoral artery with a safety free 38 derringer he was pocket carrying. Like one would keys or loose change. He was DOA when he arrived at Fort Loudon Medical

That’s unfortunate    I bet his last thoughts were  I should have brought a holster 

[Hozzie]

Natural Selection.  I just have a hard time feeling bad for these people.  I guess I am a bad person.

Glad that at least no one else was hurt.

Edited May 16, 2023 by Hozzie

[Erik88]

No one knew how to apply a tourniquet? Sad way to go. Totally preventable. 

 

 

[bersaguy]

1 hour ago, Sleep profit said:

That’s unfortunate    I bet his last thoughts were  I should have brought a holster 

At that time I don't think he was thinking much of anything except the pain he was experiencing....JMHO

[chances R]

If shot high in the groin or proximal thigh, tourniquet may not be an option.

[bersaguy]

3 minutes ago, Erik88 said:

No one knew how to apply a tourniquet? Sad way to go. Totally preventable. 

 

 

I was taught how to apply a tourniquet back in my time in the boy scouts. It is not that hard to do if you can find a strap of any kind and a stick.

[Grayfox54]

Direct pressure. Put your hand over the wound or the femoral artery and press HARD!

Darwin at work. 

[FUJIMO]

Tourniquet was applied but as grayfox suggested I believe it was in a spot where it didn't matter. Just his time 

[Sleep profit]

48 minutes ago, Grayfox54 said:

Direct pressure. Put your hand over the wound or the femoral artery and press HARD!

Darwin at work. 

I thought of a Darwin Award also I tried to be diplomatic lol

[Omega]

Now we have better ways to handle these wounds, but they are not in most people's kits, and yes, it would hurt like hell, but the patient normally passes out, so there's that.

We have lost a few guys to wounds like this because they are in a place that is very difficult to put pressure on so tourniquets and pressure bandages just don't do it.  So they developed methods using Quikclot and Chitogauze which can be put right into the wound channel, but it's manually done so like I said, painful and takes time someone bleeding out may not have.  Now we have Xstat, which is a syringe full of compressed sponges that you insert into the wound channel, again painful and must be done right to work. 

A bit bloody but good to see how it is done in practice (non human).

Spoiler

 

 

[BigK]

Complacency will get you every time.

[NoBanStan]

7 minutes ago, BigK said:

Complacency will get you every time.

Bingo.

Sucks to say, but stories like these are the reminder i needed to be more careful.