Shot in the head. Possible to stay alive?
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Um I don't think the bullet will be able to bounce off someone's head like thatOriginally posted by Ponders:7.62 from Ak47 won't kill if the person is shot in the head...
provided the bullet does not penetrate the outer skin of the head. -
looking at some of the idiots in SC, it would.. their skulls are that dense
also, if it penetrates and hits their brains, it won't matter coz from the looks of things written in there, they never seem to use it anyway -
Well, all depends on the path and type of the bullet. I figure that with a rococheting 7.62 AP round coming in under the chin and exiting the frontal bone, there's a small chance the fellow could survive, and depending on the dinner parties you attend, might even be quite amusing. Just don't ask him to calculate the bill at the end of the evening.
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Just dun get shot..
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Originally posted by newcomer:there was a black kid who got shot in the head by a shotgun in the us sometime back. lost half his skull. still kicking.
He was kicking the bucket..Originally posted by Daisuke-kun:kicking wad? -
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A man was shot point blank at the back of his head with a .22 pistol. He not only survived the shooting, he turned around to attack his attacker.
The round failed to penetrate his skull, and instead circumvented around to the side of his head where it remained until removed.
An AK-47 would mess up a head pretty badly. Surviving a headshot is nothing short of a miracle. -
from a rifle, probably almost no survival chance, unless you're talking about a graze.
if it is a small calibre handgun, then there is a likelihood and again, depends on which part. -
depend on where u hit in the head ar... cos before u reach brain there a skull there hence will not drop out.
reason for drinking is.. cos after loss of blood the person will feel cold hence the drink is to keep them warm..
For the Gun power tat is also truth but depend on situtation -
[quote]Originally posted by Meilin86:
[b]. And the person can stay alive drinking alcohol, heated knife to take out the bullet , burn the powder and tape the wound.
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exit wound from a bullet is bigger than the entry wound.In any case drinking alcohol would help you bleed to death faster.If you burn your knife like rambo and tape yourself you will also die of infection.
If you are shot in the head and can still remember how to call for the ambulance then you are going to be ok -
the bugger who used a toy gun to rob the upp bt timah rd maybank in nov 2004 was shot in the head. he was not only alive but quite conscious, went to court in a wheelchair half paralysed.
nice shot from the security guard. -
he was shot, twice. shot one grazed his face, bad shoting? he is lucky i don't know.Originally posted by sir_peanuts:the bugger who used a toy gun to rob the upp bt timah rd maybank in nov 2004 was shot in the head. he was not only alive but quite conscious, went to court in a wheelchair half paralysed.
nice shot from the security guard.
shot 2 hit his shoulders and got lodge inside it. i would say thats one screwed up trigger happy guard man -
Tell me, if you meet an "armed" robber and you are the security guard, will you turn trigger happy even if you are usually not? I'm sure if i'm the guard, I would have turned trigger happy too just to make sure me, myself and I is safe.Originally posted by snk86:he was shot, twice. shot one grazed his face, bad shoting? he is lucky i don't know.
shot 2 hit his shoulders and got lodge inside it. i would say thats one screwed up trigger happy guard man -
try using shotgun..
i believe a person's head will be blow into bits and pieces.. -
subjected to one's skull
very thick you use one whole round of ak also won't die
very thin you use 1 bullet from mp5 can die instantly -
Apparently one kwailan officer or WO got shot in the head during the mid 80's.
The story goes one NSF shot him in the head at point blank range with an M16. The shooter surrendered after that and did not attempt to run.
My friend was an MP regular and he said he was at the scene.
Small hole in front but back of head wide open. Brains all over the office.
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If you look at some Chinese website, you can see pics of people - including women - executed by shooting.
There seems to be 2 styles of shooting:
a) distance of several metres shooting at the front of prisoner
b) point blank, but I can't remember if these are front or back of prisoner's head
(Shooting from the back of head would be the worst as your face would be blown away. So I don't know what is the SOP.)
In both styles, the weapon was a 7.62 x 39 (AK47) calibre weapon. Never seen pistols, which I'm sure they have used but found ineffective.
Prisoners condemned are usually executed soon unlike in western countries.
Prisoners are bound with rope and paraded with a wooden plague stating crime like in the old days. For some reasons, the condemed don't wear prison uniforms but their own clothes. Prison probably don't want to do the laundry or waste the uniform.
Execution ground is usually open grass area with sand barriers to catch bullets. Prisoner is made to kneel down, blindfolded and shot by a single bullet, which the family of the condemned is required to pay for.
The results with the 7.62 x 39 is bloody and gory as you can imagine. In nearly every case the head has a very big hole. The worst one I saw was the bullet completely shattered the structure of a woman's skull so her head was like a deflated ball - flat, like a rubber mask with hair thrown on the ground. -
I live in Shanghai and come back once or twice a year.
I don't want to start a new thread but here's a question:
There are armed "police" wearing a grey uniform at the airport. Who are they? -
Originally posted by Daisuke-kun:kicking wad?
it means he's still alive. -
errr.... I don't think pressure bandages will help with internal haemorrhaging within the skull. They might worsen the intracranial pressure.Originally posted by C-100:In Singapore, gunshot wounds are rare, not to mention in the head.
The survival rate will depend greatly on which part of the skull / head the bullet end up with.
Most prob this patient will be send to CT or MRI/MRA brain onces vitals are being stablize in the resus room.
If the bullet end up anywhere lodged in the skull (as it is very thick and vascular) at the most, there will be massive bleeding, but will be stopped with pressure bandage and sitches after the bullet is being removed.
If the bullet end up in any part of the brain, with no exit wound, then the Neuro surgeons may ask for further investigations, for the exact location of the bullets. Depending on the location of where the bullet is lodged, sometimes removal will cause more harm then good.
If bullet is being hit at the back of the head hitting C1/C2 or the thalamic, most prob will be death on the spot.
Usually the neurosurgeons will remove the affected part of the skull to facilitate surgery to evacuate the bleeding (craniotomy) as well as the bone fragments.
During surgery, they usually insert a device (but that depends on how bad the wound is and the main qualifiers are very low levels of consciousness aka score 8 or less a/c to the Glasgow Coma Scale) to monitor the intracranial pressure of the patient after surgery . It is a little thing that sticks out of the patient's head which is attached to a monitor to check for raised intracranial pressure.
If it is a direct hit to the brain stem, instantaneous death. If it is a hit which affects the side of the brain but missed the thalamus, brainstem - patient may survive. People can still survive with half a brain. Depending on the force of the entry and exit of the bullet. -
They probably die instant and don't feel anything?
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Got pic?Originally posted by chino65:I live in Shanghai and come back once or twice a year.
I don't want to start a new thread but here's a question:
There are armed "police" wearing a grey uniform at the airport. Who are they? -
depends on the distance and bullet size.Originally posted by Meilin86:I asking myself this question. It may sound awkward.
Anyone know how it feel like or how the person shut down the conscience in the body receiving a headshot from AK47? I still cannot figure out. Is it just black out? I heard from my friend that the brain will drop out. I thought it is only just a hole. And the person can stay alive drinking alcohol, heated knife to take out the bullet , burn the powder and tape the wound.
Guys who enter NS before may know the answer.
I guess i was shocked I saw a person been shot in the head but yet able to talk in a movie. Not sure the title.
Any cure for headshot by miracle surgeon? It is so sad to see people die in Counterstrike.
headshot from rifles such as AK and M4a1 most likely u won't survive. Head shot from pistol if u are lucky u will survive, provided that it's not a close distance shot -
Hey, whack the frontal lobe and they'll be the life of the party.Originally posted by fymk:People can still survive with half a brain. -
Dunno about the M4. The length of the barrel creates reduced muzzle velocity, which in turn reduces yawing and fragmentation of the bullet as it passes through the body (which is what causes the huge exit wound). Fired over 100 metres from the target, the bullet lacks the velocity for fragementation, and M855 rounds don't help things either.Originally posted by FBI:depends on the distance and bullet size.
headshot from rifles such as AK and M4a1 most likely u won't survive. Head shot from pistol if u are lucky u will survive, provided that it's not a close distance shot -
I remember I watched one episode on Discovery Channel about a poor girl whose right brain was totally removed..She was skiing when she had a fall and ruptured one of the blood vessels in her neck..she didn't know it..all she had was very serious headaches every now and then..and it can be so serious until she becomes half paralysed..Originally posted by fymk:errr.... I don't think pressure bandages will help with internal haemorrhaging within the skull. They might worsen the intracranial pressure.
Usually the neurosurgeons will remove the affected part of the skull to facilitate surgery to evacuate the bleeding (craniotomy) as well as the bone fragments.
During surgery, they usually insert a device (but that depends on how bad the wound is and the main qualifiers are very low levels of consciousness aka score 8 or less a/c to the Glasgow Coma Scale) to monitor the intracranial pressure of the patient after surgery . It is a little thing that sticks out of the patient's head which is attached to a monitor to check for raised intracranial pressure.
If it is a direct hit to the brain stem, instantaneous death. If it is a hit which affects the side of the brain but missed the thalamus, brainstem - patient may survive. People can still survive with half a brain. Depending on the force of the entry and exit of the bullet.
The doctors couldn't tell what's wrong..but finally a doctor suspected stroke and did a MRI for her and finally discovered the truth..the quickly operated on her but her brain just kept swelling..removing part of the skull temporarily soon didn't work anymore, so they cut off dead parts of the brain to give it more space to swell..but it still wouldn't stop swelling and she risked squeezing her own brain to death..so in the end they decided to remove the whole right brain because it's nearly dead already..
So after removing her right brain, she finally start to show improvements and started to heal..and by right, by removing the right brain it means the left half of her body should be paralysed..But, deep breath, nearly her whole body is still functional!!!
And this was because her left brain decided to take up the duties of the right brain..she not only can work now, but she can walk by herself (she's not even wheelchair-bound!) and talk quite properly..AMAZING! This is pure miracle..