(lightsaber powering up)
- Whoa!
Not Harrison Ford!
Getting handsy, that's a wookie mistake
and, of course, don't pull it out!
(record scratch) What?
Today we are headed to a galaxy far, far away,
breaking down and reacting to
all of the action pack medical scenes
and forceful injuries from "Star Wars."
(Wilhelm scream) Let's dive right in.
Oh, so cool.
Oh my gosh, so look at the skin.
If it's just red like the sunburn, fine.
That's first degree burn.
If it's red with a blister, second degree burn
and then if it actually turns more kind of white,
then there's no blood supply going to that area.
- [Dexter] No blood. - And then obviously
if something is charred, turns black.
(vacuum seal squealing)
There's even a respiratory apparatus component.
We don't have these kind of masks at the hospital,
but we do have different types.
We have little prongs that go in your nose,
it's called a nasal cannula.
We have a mask that goes over your mouth
but it's clear so we can see,
there are different ones that you could put on,
a non-rebreather, that's the one that has the bag.
Oh! (Obi Wan grunting)
(lightsaber powering up) - Whoa!
(Darth Maul grunting) Oh!
Cut in half with a lightsaber.
Oh my gosh.
I've said this before
about people getting cut in half.
The likelihood that you're going to survive is minimal,
because you're going to bleed out and die so fast
because your aorta and the inferior vena cava
are sliced in half.
(dramatic music)
Oh-ho-ho!
I do see people that come in
with missing parts of their bodies.
You need to, if you can, bring those pieces
that have been separated from your body
with you to the hospital.
Rarely, but sometimes, you can actually reattach them.
(lightsabers droning, crashing)
Oh, man!
Amputation to where it could possibly be replanted,
it cauterized, probably, all the vessels.
Not bleeding out and so it was so smooth.
Reattaching the bone, easy, right?
You can use hardware to do that,
but the biggest thing is actually
getting all the vessels and the nerves
to be able to reattach.
Landed perfectly, cushioned his head thank goodness,
so he didn't get whiplash injury.
And you can see the arm is not bleeding out.
We use machines at the hospital,
it's called the Bovie knife,
to actually cut and cauterize
small blood vessels and muscles.
(lightsabers humming, crashing)
- Oh, look at that!
Goodbye hands!
Would've been super cool
if they actually showed the bones
and you can see different colorations
of the tissues, the nerves and muscles.
Oh!
Oldest question,
when you got your head amputated off your body
based on the guillotine,
are you conscious?
How long are you conscious for?
Is there muscle movement? Are you aware?
Again, you can't study this stuff.
You'll have some nonspecific firing
of your nerve action potentials that might move muscles,
but, is there a higher level thinking?
Maybe one or two seconds and then that's it.
(lightsabers crashing) Oh!
Oh! You have a massive puncture wound
all the way through the body.
What are we going through mid abdomen?
Intestines, the omentum,
maybe the spinal cord and the bones of the spinal column.
- No! (dramatic music)
- What's gonna kill you is bleeding out
and the cauterization of a lightsaber
not stopping the blood vessel.
You'd have to have a little bit longer
to where you'll actually bleed out.
(lightsabers humming, laser gun firing)
- Oh!
That's a Mandalorian type helmet, I believe.
Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- These lightsabers are pretty scary, pretty dangerous.
Do we have this stuff in medicine?
I know that like an ophthalmologist's office
will use different types of lasers
- Lasers.
- For retinal detachments.
We don't have too many plasma cutters that I know of
at what I do for a living.
(lightsaber powering up) - Whoa!
Not Harrison Ford. - Why?
- Big massive puncture wound to the abdomen.
Didn't die in like, two seconds.
Good job, okay, they're improving.
One, he left the blade in there.
It was probably cauterizing.
Same with any impaled object, if it's still in there,
it actually might be tamponading
or preventing the blood from pouring out.
(Chewbacca roaring)
Can any of you guys do the Chewbacca voice?
Let me know in the comments.
(Benedict imitating a wookie)
(slow, sad music)
When he fell, he probably didn't die yet.
He probably became hypotensive,
meaning that the blood pressure dropped.
Typically your heart rate goes up really high
and then what could happen is,
you then decrease the heart rate.
As you lose a lot of blood,
you decrease perfusion of blood to your brain
and you pass out.
- No! (lightsaber powering up)
(lightsaber slicing) (screaming)
Good, appropriate screaming in pain.
Sometimes when you get injured
and you don't realize like the pain
until like maybe like one or two seconds later,
our bodies are so interesting.
(screaming) (shouting)
This is probably almost equivalent to lightning,
which is direct current.
Things in our house are alternating currents,
so DC versus AC.
DC currents will actually
cause you to have a blast injury.
So like, pew, gone.
(shouting, crashing)
(laser gun firing) (lightsaber droning, slashing)
(man screaming)
We have blood.
The newer ones we didn't,
because the blades cauterized and they took that idea.
But here, it doesn't look like they're doing that.
If there's a lot of bleeding,
you gotta make sure that you get the bleeding to stop.
Direct pressure to the area that's bleeding
is your number one.
(Luke screaming)
Oh, I love that. I love it.
I mean, I feel bad for 'em.
Dominant hand amputations are tough
because you have to learn to use your other.
That's one issue.
Obviously the mental component
of having something amputated
takes a big hit.
It is emotionally tolling on an individual
when they lose a part of them.
(low growling) (metal slicing)
- [Bartender] Here.
(grunting, smashing)
- Smash your face onto a bar, countertop, maybe concrete.
Things you worry about
is fracturing any of the bones of the face, obviously,
but you also have to worry about
the neck 'cause of the extension.
You can actually have an internal decapitation
if you sever your spinal cord.
(grunting, shouting)
Punch up into the axilla.
There's something called your brachial plexus,
which is a bunch of nerves
that actually come through the armpit,
so it can actually cause a lot of pain.
You're probably tearing a bunch
of muscles, tendons and ligaments.
(heavy breathing)
(grunting, heavy breathing)
(laser gun firing)
(door clattering closed) (shouting)
(thudding)
Ouch.
- Ouch.
- Body cut in half.
We can't help that guy as you guys know.
Not much to do for somebody cut in half
and they don't show up to the hospital.
(dramatic music) (screaming)
So people always ask
if the pain is so bad, you go into shock?
Typically not.
When we talk about shock in medical world,
it has to do with kind of perfusing organs and whatnot.
You can become altered
to where you may not feel much,
but it's a much bigger pathway than just like,
the pain's so great that you're in shock.
- Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of light speed
and we're preparing to,
(choking, gasping)
- Oh!
- [Vader] You have failed me for the last time.
You are in command now, Admiral Piett.
- Thank you, Lord Vader.
- Using the force.
- We'll use the force!
- To close the airway, basically.
Not being able to speak,
probably collapsing onto the vocal cords.
Literally two chords in your neck here,
but it's also like the gatekeeper to your airway.
(slow mechanized breathing)
You have about five to eight minutes of oxygen.
Just depends on your ability
to hold your own breath, so to speak.
If you have a lot of other medical issues,
it might be a little bit faster.
This is awesome.
This was so cool to do.
It was entertaining for me.
New injuries, obviously a lot of amputations going on here.
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