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Originally Posted by frostfire
swatsurgeon, this may go without saying:
1. In reference to your earlier topic http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...&highlight=.22. So regardless of the caliber, most if not all low velocity GSW's lethality depends on shot placement. Yet, a minor looking wound can still be fatal.
2. By the shotgun injuries analogy, you mean that the fatal cases you worked with always involve multiple stab/slash wounds.
Do I understand your posts correctly?
Thank you for the knowledge
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as to #1, yes,,,depends on what the permenant cavity injures,
#2, the analogy was that a shotgun can damage alot more tissue typically than a single smaller projectile (high velocity excepted)...a knife that has a single wound channel (permenant cavity if you will) injures what it lacerates....a person who knows how to really utilize a knife can cause more external or internal damage....not just the straight thrust/slash that is typical of "amateurs".
ss
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(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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