- Oh, my gosh!
(dramatic music) (insects chittering)
Come on!
Premature aging, hanging on for dear life,
and what is this?
A center for ants? - A center for ants.
- In honor of the new film,
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" coming out,
today, we are back at it
breaking down and reacting
to all of the dramatic medical scenes
and over the top injuries from Indiana Jones.
Let's dive right in.
(dramatic music) (Indiana grunts)
(man grunts) Oh! (laughs)
Taking a massive tree branch to your head,
one, it's gotta be super dry
because it snapped super easy, so it's old.
You probably are going to get
some sort of laceration or abrasion just from that,
and then, obviously, you're gonna get a concussion.
(dramatic music) Oh.
And then he's punching him in the face.
Indiana Jones has a chance of breaking his own hand,
commonly a boxer's fracture,
a fracture typically from punching something.
And usually you get it on the fourth
or the fifth metacarpal.
(insects chittering)
(man screaming) Oh! Okay, okay, okay.
If I fall on a bed of massive looking ants,
I'm going to get up and keep my mouth closed.
Fun fact, the most dangerous ant in the world
is the bullet ant, and they say the stinger
feels like you're getting hit by a bullet.
(man screaming) (insects chittering)
(dramatic music) Oh, my gosh.
Come on! - Come on!
- Depending on where you are in the world,
there are different types of insects
and creatures that you do have to worry about.
The emergency medicine physician
that you see, say, in Australia
knows different types of insects, reptiles
that cause different types of infections and illnesses
versus the ones, say, in Southern California.
Oh! (Indiana yells)
I love the sound of Indiana Jones fight scenes
because, when you hit somebody,
it doesn't sound like that.
(Indiana yelling) Oh!
We got some blood coming out the face.
The nose actually bleeds a lot,
and he has a laceration injury
to the bridge in the nose.
And there's actually sometimes a small blood vessel
that rides right there.
We actually end up sewing it back.
It's somebody's face,
you actually want the best cosmetic repair,
and typically, sutures are that.
(punch thuds) Oh!
The other thing you worry about
when somebody gets punched in the face,
basically a maxillary sinus fracture.
But most of the time,
it's an infraorbital wall fracture,
which is the wall below the eye.
And that could fracture a lot.
And the concern is that, if you sneeze,
the air can escape out of the sinus
and go into the tissue and cause a lot of swelling.
(Indiana grunts) Oh.
(man speaks in German)
Oh, geez. Taking that fast of a propeller, it's massive.
It's going so fast,
it's just gonna rip right through somebody.
Does this actually come into the emergency department?
No, never. - Never!
- You wouldn't be alive, unless you're able
to be pulled off that situation in seconds.
Oh, no! (gasps)
(man speaks in German)
(propeller blades whirring) - Why?
Because the blades aren't like knives,
they're wider- - Pretty thick.
- they actually cause more destruction
of greater demand to greater surface area.
If it does hit you, just the amount of force
could cause cervical injuries, spinal injuries,
and maybe even cause amputations.
(men screaming) Oh, my gosh!
(dramatic music)
(liquid gurgling) (Jordan laughs)
Oh, my gosh!
I wanted to be there on set when they created these.
Fire, obviously, we've been through it before
many times in this channel.
There's first, second, third, and yes,
there is fourth degree burns.
Tissue is just melting and falling off
and the eyes turn white.
The sclera is white,
but inside of our eyeball is typically clear fluid.
(men screaming) What?
(laughs) Okay, if you get so hot,
do you actually blow up?
Again, not something that we see
in the emergency department,
not something that I am an expert on.
Oh, I love it!
You're hanging on there.
This reminds me of the movie "Cliffhanger"
with Sylvester Stallone.
If you have a significant amount
of good grip strength, you can hold on,
but the concern also is your brachial plexus,
which is a bunch of nerves
that are running through your armpit
that can be stretched out
and cause numbness and irritation.
(man yelling in foreign language)
(flesh sizzling) - Oh, oh!
Ouch. - [ET] Ouch.
- Burning the palm of your hand,
your skin is a little bit thicker
or more resilient on the palm
versus the top of your hand
so it actually takes a lot of heat,
but you can have it blister.
Very rarely does anybody get a sunburn on their hand.
(man yelling) (dramatic music)
Oh, man.
So as he's falling, he smacks his head on the rocks.
Falls greater than three times your height,
but this one's significantly high
and he's gonna to not make it when he hits the ground.
As he's falling down, hitting the side of the cliff
maybe could cause a cervical dislocation fracture
and severs the spinal cord.
(dramatic music) Oh, the holy grail.
- Eternal life.
- Imagine if you were in this room
and you had a pick to get eternal life,
but if you choose wrong, you die instantly.
Would you do it? I wouldn't.
Oh, geez. (dramatic music)
(Walter grunts) Oh!
Uh, I think that's the opposite of eternal life.
What are things that we on a daily basis
could maybe avoid that would age us rapidly?
Obviously smoking.
Also drinking a significant amount
of alcohol can age you.
Your skin will age if it's out in the sun a lot.
(Elsa screaming) Whoa, the hair growth.
I like that they use the hair growth
to depict rapidly aging.
Our hair grows over time.
They say like, "Hey, does your hair grow when you die
and your fingernails grow when you die?"
Typically, it has to do with the receding
and the dehydration of the tissue around it
that makes it appear that things are growing.
(record scratches) Oh my gosh, okay.
Whoo! That guy did not age well.
A lot of wrinkles, classically in the forehead.
As you get older, you can lose subcutaneous fat
which gives you that appearance of the skin
where it appears to be a little bit more sunken.
(Elsa and Walter yelling)
Oh, my gosh, the eyeballs going back.
Your eyeballs wouldn't do that, obviously.
They would just stay right there.
(Elsa and Walter yelling) Gross. Oh!
He's turning into dust.
We see people who get gangrene,
kind of rotting of tissue.
And it could actually be dry or wet gangrene.
It's basically just rotting, nasty, dead flesh.
I've seen people come in with rotting dead flesh
that have maggots all over it
and the maggots are actually eating the dead flesh.
It's a mess.
- [All] It's a mess.
- You do have to be careful
in these types of situations,
obviously not this situation,
but if somebody has a flexion response,
maybe even like a seizure,
that they can't release their grip.
Definitely kind of be aware of that.
Almost like when somebody is electrocuted,
you don't want to have somebody
accidentally cut cut off your own airway.
(Elsa and Walter yelling) (bones crumbling)
(dramatic music) (Elsa screaming)
This depicts also the bones shattered, right?
- They shattered. - As we get older,
the density of our bones decreases.
It's called osteopenia, basically osteoporosis.
What those basically meaning
is the bones are not strong enough,
so you have increased risk of fractures.
And we see this a lot.
We can actually see this on x-rays.
(men laughing) (dramatic music)
Oh, we got the fire, always fire.
Oh! Oh, man. (laughs)
I forgot about that,
knife to the right side of the abdomen,
or a sword puncture wound.
So you think how low on the right side is it?
Is it right in the middle? Does it hit your liver?
The liver's protected by the ribs on that side,
but it could potentially go through.
You also have your gallbladder sitting right there
as well as your ascending colon
and then the kidney on the backside of that.
That was awesome. I love Indiana Jones.
Super cool. I haven't seen it in so many years.
I've actually even been to the amusement parks
that have Indiana Jones scenes, which are super cool.
If you guys are fans of Indiana Jones,
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