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- Let's go.
I hope he did the right leg.
(laughing)
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I see your comments, I read them all.
The good, the bad and the ugly.
All jokes aside.
I recently got a lot of suggestions in the comments section
asking me to check out the animated web series,
Happy Tree Friends.
That's why today we're going to be taking a look
at some of the injuries
and the crazy medical type situations
from this show.
I have to be honest.
I've never actually seen Happy Tree Friends before
and was warned to not be fooled
by those friendly looking animals.
These woodland creatures evidently have pretty graphic
and violent adventures.
Before we get into it, my name is Dr. Jordan Wagner.
I'm an ER doctor that deals with every medical situation
that you could think of.
I created this channel to answer the medical questions
that I get from people every single day.
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All right, let's dive right in.
(groovy music)
I like the music.
(butter sizzling)
Frying butter?
(laughs)
Deep frying, it looks like a stick of butter.
That's probably not the healthiest thing
for you to be doing.
(dramatic music) (heart beats fast)
Oh, see.
(tires screech)
At the hospital, I like how the doctor at least
chained up his bike in an unsterile away.
Oh man!
What the heck?
Surgery for your heart,
one, you should be asleep on a ventilator,
so you don't feel anything.
You do need to make an incision down the sternum
if you're doing an open-heart surgery.
Typically called a CABG where you're using
new blood vessels, usually harvest from your own body.
Then you bypass where it's blocked.
(suspenseful music)
What?
Come on that's messed up.
You're causing traumatic brain injury,
just to knock somebody out, that doesn't exist.
(laughs)
Jeez loueez.
What is he doing?
Just shoving in his arms and hands right in there.
(laughs)
Okay, of course he's dead he doesn't have a heart.
Ripping the ribs open, okay.
So you see some sharp edged ribs.
You gotta be careful not to hurt yourself
and lacerate yourself on sharp bone.
Okay, I like this, I like this.
(gibberish language)
He's pumping.
Okay.
(heart monitor beeps)
Okay, He still needs a heart.
You just don't typically have organs just laying around
in the refrigerator outside of an operating room.
Hearts are typically fresh because you don't want
the tissue to die.
With that heart,
you need to get it from somebody else.
And it's couriered typically on ice
and needs to be put back into somebody else's body
fairly fast so then you can get blood flow and re-pump.
(sniffing)
(laughing)
I think that's a little bit of a biohazard problem.
What is that?
Did you go to the butcher?
Oh my gosh, it looks like he must've went to the butcher.
He got his meat nicely wrapped.
And of course we got a heart that's on a sandwich
that he already took a bite out of.
Yeah, forget it.
It's already a gone heart.
I'm just gonna continue to eat it.
People actually do eat organs.
So most of the steaks that we eat is muscle.
A heart is actually a muscle.
You do have to be careful eating too much of an organ.
Our bodies typically can't necessarily handle it.
So intensely small pieces of it, you can.
(crash)
What is this trash out here?
(happy upbeat music) All right.
(laughing)
It doesn't even make sense.
Doesn't even make sense.
I love how the doctor's like super proud.
If you have this big, massive hearts,
you typically don't want to transplant them
because they don't function as well.
Too big of a heart, too strong of a heart,
actually it doesn't squeeze the blood out as well.
Okay, all right.
So we've got a blind doctor.
(gibberish language)
(gasp)
With a-
big syringe?
(stabbing)
(laughs)
Yeah, I don't think anybody wants a doctor
that can't see a hundred percent
to try to come at you with a needle.
Oh, we got another try.
Oh!
Don't do that!
Ow!
What?
This is like torture.
Don't just keep jabbing, stabbing somebody, right?
It needs to be sterilized.
And you never actually go in like this.
It's a delicate procedure.
You go at a very shallow angle because the veins
are just underneath the skin.
(painful screams)
Oh, it's still happening.
It's just-
(laughs) (snapping)
And it's bending and breaking.
What?
There's no way that you can change direction
when you're in there.
The needle is gonna snap.
And now you have a snapped needle inside the body.
To be able to get those out if it's embedded,
you need what's called fluoroscopy,
which is a continuous x-ray.
An interventional radiologist,
or a surgeon will use to try to find
the needle to get it out.
Oh be careful with this ax.
Oh no!
Oh!
(tree thud)
Woah, how'd that not get him?
(sigh of relief)
Oh, the foot.
With this type of injury, you gotta be careful
or worry so to speak, for one, it's a dirty wound now.
So open fracture, laceration.
And then the problem is can he actually get
out of this situation?
(dramatic music)
Okay.
All right.
(laughing)
That stinks.
That was a good idea to think about using the ax
to break the piece of wood.
But then wouldn't you think that
if you broke that piece of wood that the tree's
now gonna collapse on top of you anyway?
Okay.
All right, what's in the pocket?
Oh! I told you
(painful cries and thuds)
This is-
Oh my gosh.
I can't imagine the pain.
(painful cries) Oh my gosh.
Okay, it's a cartoon.
But think about this in real life.
So you're using a spoon to cut through your leg.
Like that takes up a lot of force.
Now you have all the tissue is gone in an area.
Now you only have bone.
And obviously the spoon is not working.
So it's getting to a rock to see if we can break it.
Oh, that's not going to work.
Just smash it with the rock.
(bone cracks) (painful shriek)
Oh, it split down the middle.
(bone cracking)
(shriek of pain)
Oh my gosh.
Splintered the bone with the spoon.
Can this actually happen?
I think you'd actually have a better chance
of just actually smashing it with a rock potentially
or at least causing a little bit of damage
with the spoon to cause a break in the bone itself
to then be able to snap it open.
Let's go, I hope he did the right leg.
(laughs)
And he chopped off his wrong leg.
(happy music)
All right, got the EKG going.
Got some infusion.
Looks like these are blood infusions.
(squish)
Oh.
(laughs)
Darn it.
Actually in real life,
it needs to be verified by two people before giving it
as well making sure it's the right person,
making sure it's the right blood type.
That way you don't have errors.
We need to double check ourselves.
And obviously you need to take a lot more care
in trying to what we call spike the bag.
So you don't, you don't waste blood like that.
(beep flat lines)
(squishy thud)
Okay, went into like vTach real quick, maybe vFib.
And now is in asystole.
Immediately when somebody goes into asystole,
the monitor goes flat line.
The first thing you do is check the patient.
So you wanna check to see, is it an error in the machine?
So did a cord come off?
Is the machine broken?
Is the patient actually still talking and alive?
If not immediately call for help, start CPR.
Creature didn't do that and it looks like just stabbing,
emergently into their own arm.
Let's see what happens.
(thud)
Ah, there we go.
Woo-hoo, I love it.
Now the individual, the creature here decided to
stab their own vein in hopes of siphoning
their blood directly into the person.
We see this in TV shows, movies, cartoons,
all different things.
I've never seen this in my practice of medicine
in the hospital, but I've actually never been in the field.
In the sense of like warfare.
You can't just give somebody your blood,
unless you're compatible.
This could work in very rare situations.
I've just never seen this occur.
Final thoughts on this show?
Actually pretty grotesque for a cartoon,
but actually pretty cool medical scenes.
And I hope that everybody who was able to watch this,
got something out of it and learned something.
Do you have a favorite show that features medical situations
that you want me to react to?
Let me know which show or episodes in the comments below.
And as always make sure that you subscribe
if you wanna see more fun videos like this one.
Thank you so much for watching and stay healthy, my friends.
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