Medical procedure in black hawk down?!
Question: when one of the rangers was wounded they tried to stop the bleeding with someone reaching down the wound. what was exactly being done? pull out an artery or nerve? is that a real medical procedure?
Answers: when one of the rangers was wounded they tried to stop the bleeding with someone reaching down the wound. what was exactly being done? pull out an artery or nerve? is that a real medical procedure?
The injured Ranger's femoral artery was severed. It's the major artery supplying the leg with blood. Arteries are muscular and can contract into a wound cavity when traumatized or torn. That's what happened in the book/flick. The medic was attempting to pull the retracted artery out of the wound, to clamp it shut with some forceps.
Now military medics are equipped with blood-clotting powders and compresses, that almost immediately stop hemorraging (heavy bleeding), even high-pressure arterial bleeding. Sadly, it appears that stuff wasn't yet invented in 1993.