Comments on: Holy Friggin’ Crap

By: Ramses II

Ramses II — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:07:57 +0000

Well, I’m no doctor (Don’t all great comments on medical matters begin with exactly those words? :p) but the type of blunt force required to tear his entire face in half would surely have also massively concussed his brain on impact. People do die from head impacts that aren’t sufficient to explode soft tissue.

If something *cut* or *ripped* his face off (If he’d slid past the edge of the concrete dock, scraped his face off, and the flap was hanging from his chin) that would be one thing and the skull and brain could easily be intact, but for the skin to be bashed hard enough to crack and tear under the pressure absolutely has to have done some brain damage as well. IMHO.

The fact that he was floating face down (ugh, that phrase has new meaning) in the video isn’t reassuring of the idea that it could just be a surface injury either.

By: whitecap nurse

whitecap nurse — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:37:49 +0000

So, it crossed my mind that this is a hoax of some sort but it looks pretty real. I think it is definitely possible that he dies shortly after this video. However, maybe he just ripped his face apart, his brain still works and he’s breathing on his own. I wouldn’t describe the medical folks as lackadaisical. We have no idea of their level of training. They are probably doing the best they can with what they’ve got. There is no point in putting a C-collar on this guy because that would require an intact jaw to do anything to stabilize the neck. The one guy is holding his head in a neutral position and holding his face together, sorta, kinda. Presumably the rest of the staff is hitting the phone bank to find the best plastic surgeon in the world, some higher facility to take this guy off their hands and the next of kin.

By: BROCA’S area

BROCA’S area — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:20:50 +0000

shit!!….i wouldnt have a 1% chance of surviving here in our casualty!

By: Alisha

Alisha — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:32:59 +0000

Wow, that is some serious stuff. Holy crap. His injuries HAD to be fatal. But it looks like he is breathing :/

By: paul

paul — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:10:32 +0000

uhh… maybe they cleared his spine clinically? i don’t think nexus *technically* mentions mechanisms that make your face look like the cover of fangoria magazine.

By: Elsi

Elsi — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:54:14 +0000

Next time, w/ something that horrible, maybe you could make it click to play not automatic play? Of course I did have to watch a while to see that.

I hope no one let his family see him.

By: Gert

Gert — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:39:31 +0000

I coulda lived a lot of years without seeing that.

By: SumDood

SumDood — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:30:40 +0000

I saw a case of a guy who was feeling suicidal, so he shot himself in the mouth with a shotgun (not an easy thing to do). He survived, and somehow managed to shoot himself in the mouth again! He was far from dead. He survived with full mental capacity, and after getting maxillo-facial prosthetics to make him a new nose & palate, he tells anyone who will listen that suicide is not the answer.

By: Ire.

Ire. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:17:35 +0000

‘Trauma’ is a bit on an inadequate word for that. Yikes.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:43:00 +0000

Oh wait, on second watch saw the line in the wrist connected to something with a pressure bag.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:41:09 +0000

No apparent line of sorts either. WTF. It’s like, hey, let’s just push his face around some.

By: cynic

cynic — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:21:41 +0000

Agree with Ramses, he was +/- Dead at the point of impact. All that was left was brain stem activity. That still does not justify the lackadaisical treatment provided.

By: Ramses II

Ramses II — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:38:21 +0000

Isn’t it possible the movements were reflexive and not indicative of any awareness? Not to try to justify this treatment, but seems probable he was dead from the neck up already and the rest of the body was just catching up.

By: ERPA

ERPA — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:52:44 +0000

I saw a similiar injury from an IED explosion in Iraq. We thought about a cric but with all the facial deformity the intubation is easy as you can see directly into the posterior phayrnx. I cannot believe the treatment of the patient in the ER if he was still alive and appeared to be gasping for air. I am sure they were just waiting for him to die.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:35:32 +0000

oh. my. goodness.
I can’t believe he survived long enough to get to the hospital. I’ll have to agree with Pattie, RN - I really hope they maxed him out on pain meds and didn’t inflict any additional pain.

I’m NEVER jumping into a non-pool body of water again. ever.

By: labrat

labrat — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:37:04 +0000

^ Um, seen, not seem ^

By: labrat

labrat — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:29 +0000

Uggh. I wish I hadn’t seem that

By: ERP

ERP — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:19:10 +0000

OK, it should be viewable again. Take your Zofran beforehand if you are squeamish!

By: ERP

ERP — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:38:33 +0000

I will repost it later via a different server.

By: stacy

stacy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:07:51 +0000

Yeah! I only see the gray box with the message too!!! awww darn!! I probly don’t want to see the images anyway! Stacy