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@HighPockets group

Also, where could a character be shot without having a low chance of survival?
To put it into perspective, said character is a private eye that gets into a few tight situations, and is chased off by a gun-toting dude. He escapes, but is injured and out of commission for a bit.

@HighPockets group

Last time I broke a bone, I didn't get it checked out or anything. I heard it break though. The lesson? WATCH WHERE YOU HOLD THE BAT WHILST BUNTING.

@HighPockets group

Also it was a common injury during WW1 in particular, since your instinct whilst crawling forward is to raise your bum in the air. Also it was an injury that could get you sent home, but also not lose a limb or anything.

@Becfromthedead group

Yup. Also happened in this one book I read about the Vietnam War. Idk which thread I brought it up in, but I've definitely mentioned this before. The MC got shot in the butt, and the medic was a new guy and froze up in the middle of action, then forgot to treat for shock and overall did a terrible job, then the MC got gangrene, but had no lasting effects from the injury. He just couldn't sit right for a while.

@HighPockets group

Also it happened to Lewis during the Lewis and Clark expedition. Because he took the one-eyed and half blind soldier hunting with him whilst wearing tan deer-like clothes. Wasn't that choice brilliant?

@HighPockets group

Also if a character is stabbed in the main vein/artery in the arm, how long will it take them to bleed out? One guy is in a sword duel and gets stabbed by his opponent, rules say no intervention including medical, and I need to know if he can live long enough to kill her and die in his childhood best friend's arms.

@Norepinephrinxx

So basically the most likely cause of femur damage is a sudden fource like a car crash or falling, even something as simple as like i fell and my leg got caught in something awkwardly so the full fource of my body fractured my femur. Theres a lot of muscles and veins and growth plates and such in your thigh so it often requires surgery but mine was just a fracture, it almost hit the growth plate but luckily didnt. There can very often be horrible internal bleeding in a femur break and people can bleed out that way. The physical therapist was really surprised I didn't do any other damage like not even a sprained ankle because I guess with that kind of injury theres very often other things that are overlooked. Ummm for femur damage your leg is kept straight aaand yeah

@Becfromthedead group

Also if a character is stabbed in the main vein/artery in the arm, how long will it take them to bleed out? One guy is in a sword duel and gets stabbed by his opponent, rules say no intervention including medical, and I need to know if he can live long enough to kill her and die in his childhood best friend's arms.

You can survive a severed brachial artery (though obviously it's serious and requires immediate medical attention). It's not as immediate a death as let's say a carotid artery cut, which would cause the victim to black out pretty much right away from the blood pressure drop, but it happens pretty fast. You sever any artery, you only really have a minute or so until they black out, because major arteries gush blood when they're severed, and it's bad.

@HighPockets group

Okay!

Here's a question I've had for a while:
Is alcohol really a good painkiller/antiseptic or is that a Hollywood thing? And if it's not, then what could I use as an antiseptic in a story where until the very end of the series the only accessable medical help was a teenaged self-taught field medic and a seamstress who stitched people's wounds shut?
Namely some injuries are:
Arm torn off by a falling branch
Shot to the arm and minor concussion
Bullet wound grazes
Long, jagged gashes from sharp sticks
Cut-off fingers and another concussion
Broken ankle
And one guy gets shot in the shoulder and then the jerk who shot him dislocated it right after.

@Becfromthedead group

Drinking alcohol can ease pain to some extent. Wouldn't recommend unless you have nothing else. I wouldn't use drinking alcohol as an antiseptic, but rubbing alcohol would do just fine. H2O2 doesn't sting as badly, but it does sort of go bad, I think? Like over time (a good amount of time though) because of its chemical makeup turns into water. Rubbing alcohol usually is good for preventing infection, and H2O2 for treating minor infections. However, a wound should not be treated with either of those right away because it can delay healing. Basically the wound should be rinsed with clean water, and preventing infection comes later.