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tw for gross medical stuff and also spoilers for Netflix Witcher series
Watching ep 7? of the Witcher with Dr. Friend last night and we got to the part where Geralt’s running around in Cintra as Nilfgaard takes it, and he hears the thud as Calanthe falls out the window, and turns around to look and sees her lying there very nobly and recognizably and picturesquely absolutely stone dead.
I look over at Dr. Friend, and he’s making a face.
“I hope that landing would really kill her cleanly,” BFF says.
“Aortic dissection?” I say hopefully, knowing that’s a thing we’ve discussed. (In high-speed car crashes and falls from a great height, a common way people are killed instantly is that the aorta tears off the heart and they bleed out in less than a second. It’s actually not at all a bad way to go, and would absolutely produce the picturesquely non-distorted stone-dead effect.)
In the shot, it’s clearly visible what window she fell from, and it’s honestly not that high. “Not enough force,” he says with a grimace. “Like, nowhere near.”
“Would it kill her?” BFF asks in some worry.
“Closed head trauma, most likely,” he says.
“Would that kill her right away?” I ask.
He makes a face. “Suu-u-ure,” he says.
“More likely not though,” BFF says, reading his expression.
“Mm,” he says, “yeah, no, and most likely it’d be a spinal injury or severely broken legs.” Either way, she’d be flailing around there at least for a couple moments, unless she was really lucky and the spinal injury occurred super high.
Moral of the story, kids, either don’t throw yourself out a window that low, or don’t watch adventure shows with a doctor.
He admits there’s a bit of survivorship bias; he only sees the trauma patients they bring in (often by helicopter from the rural areas in the southern tier of the state), not the ones that are DRT. (I asked him about the acronym and he said oh actually it’s a hunting term: Dead Right There.)
tw for gross medical stuff and also spoilers for Netflix Witcher series
Watching ep 7? of the Witcher with Dr. Friend last night and we got to the part where Geralt’s running around in Cintra as Nilfgaard takes it, and he hears the thud as Calanthe falls out the window, and turns around to look and sees her lying there very nobly and recognizably and picturesquely absolutely stone dead.
I look over at Dr. Friend, and he’s making a face.
“I hope that landing would really kill her cleanly,” BFF says.
“Aortic dissection?” I say hopefully, knowing that’s a thing we’ve discussed. (In high-speed car crashes and falls from a great height, a common way people are killed instantly is that the aorta tears off the heart and they bleed out in less than a second. It’s actually not at all a bad way to go, and would absolutely produce the picturesquely non-distorted stone-dead effect.)
In the shot, it’s clearly visible what window she fell from, and it’s honestly not that high. “Not enough force,” he says with a grimace. “Like, nowhere near.”
“Would it kill her?” BFF asks in some worry.
“Closed head trauma, most likely,” he says.
“Would that kill her right away?” I ask.
He makes a face. “Suu-u-ure,” he says.
“More likely not though,” BFF says, reading his expression.
“Mm,” he says, “yeah, no, and most likely it’d be a spinal injury or severely broken legs.” Either way, she’d be flailing around there at least for a couple moments, unless she was really lucky and the spinal injury occurred super high.
Moral of the story, kids, either don’t throw yourself out a window that low, or don’t watch adventure shows with a doctor.
He admits there’s a bit of survivorship bias; he only sees the trauma patients they bring in (often by helicopter from the rural areas in the southern tier of the state), not the ones that are DRT. (I asked him about the acronym and he said oh actually it’s a hunting term: Dead Right There.)
