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the guy in the picture is alive...he is still on the monitor...you can see a EKG tracing in the background.
As for the foreign body.... have seen people live with things inadvertently left behind...a fence post in fact, for upward of 10 days...was finally recognized on XRAY as a fence post and not a spinal rodding (don't laugh.... )...and he had it removed.
The guy in the pic has obviously taken out the vasculature to his left leg as its blue in the photo...and from the looks of where it goes probably his rectum and distal colon...
He wouldn't survive long in the field because of multiple things... but removing the object (as Guy already stated) would most likely lead to a much quicker death.
doc t.
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