Is it possible to survive a bullet to the principal?
and i mean more than just a scratch from it.......... directly hits your brain?
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Dr. Gaspari's answer is good. It really depends on where on earth the bullet goes and what it destroys.
I've also seen patients survive butter knife to the temple and rime pick to the brain. I was just amazed that someone got a butter axe through the skull.
Yes. However, depending on the path of the bullet you could sustain serious traumatic brain injury or just be lucky. Damage to the sensory motor cortex can cause (you guessed it) sensory (visual, tactile, etc.) and motor (arm, leg, facade, mouth, etc.) impairment, not unlike a stroke. Hitting a major blood vessel could be fatal but hitting a minor vessel would decrease the oxygen supply to brain areas near resulting symptoms like a stroke. Although a spike is not the same as a fragmenting and riccocheting bullet, there be a famous case in the 1800s of a dynamite tamper (the guy who uses a long pole to slap down sticks of dynamite into a hole) who had an accident. There was an explosion and the rod (several foot long and about 2 inches in diameter went right through his brain. Phinneas Gage miraculously survived but have severe personality changes, probably because of damage to an assortment of parts of his limbic system.
Overall, it's best to avoid getting shot in the head by anything. Source(s): Forensic psychopharmacologist, author, researcher, etc.
Yes it is true. I met a young man contained by the hospital who did survive a gun shot wound to the head (right on the side of his head inwards to the center). He survived and has made a salvage. whether or not it actually hit his brain, im not sure.
Yes because as long as it does not hit the major arteries and veins in the brain its moderately possible to get shot in the head and not die. You may hold some disabilities related to the accident but you would still live.
yes, in Reader's digest a number of years ago some kidnapped kid survived 9 shots to the temple (head) next to a .22 cal rimfire handgun. no brain damage. just severe mental trauma.
Yeah, it's possible so long as no major blood vessels are hit and the region(s) of the brain hit aren't critical to that oodles function.. The odds aren't too good though as even the swelling will often motivation the brain to herniate, so the chances of walking away from a gun shot wound to the brain with a fair level of function aren't great; a lot of it depends on prompt surgical intervention in cases where the forgiving is salvageable.
Yes. A bullet to the cranium is survivable, and many are. The brain has plethora of blood vessels, and would other bleed if traversed by a bullet, nail, knife, bone or any foreign body. Degree of bleeding depends on the size and number of vessels violated. Survival and preservation of function depend mostly on preventing cerebral ischemia and uncal herniation which are consequences of an increasing intracranial pressure, from bleeding within the head and associated brain swelling. Cerebral ischemia a bit than herniation is the more common cause of death. Early surgical intervention though mandatory, is not other the rule. Some patients can survive w/out surgery, as long as the intracranial pressure is not allowed to increase, and produce a fatal cerebral ischemia, or worst uncal herniation. Source(s): Life contained by the trauma service.
yes.
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Dr. Gaspari's answer is good. It really depends on where on earth the bullet goes and what it destroys.
I've also seen patients survive butter knife to the temple and rime pick to the brain. I was just amazed that someone got a butter axe through the skull.
Yes. However, depending on the path of the bullet you could sustain serious traumatic brain injury or just be lucky. Damage to the sensory motor cortex can cause (you guessed it) sensory (visual, tactile, etc.) and motor (arm, leg, facade, mouth, etc.) impairment, not unlike a stroke. Hitting a major blood vessel could be fatal but hitting a minor vessel would decrease the oxygen supply to brain areas near resulting symptoms like a stroke. Although a spike is not the same as a fragmenting and riccocheting bullet, there be a famous case in the 1800s of a dynamite tamper (the guy who uses a long pole to slap down sticks of dynamite into a hole) who had an accident. There was an explosion and the rod (several foot long and about 2 inches in diameter went right through his brain. Phinneas Gage miraculously survived but have severe personality changes, probably because of damage to an assortment of parts of his limbic system.
Overall, it's best to avoid getting shot in the head by anything. Source(s): Forensic psychopharmacologist, author, researcher, etc.
Yes it is true. I met a young man contained by the hospital who did survive a gun shot wound to the head (right on the side of his head inwards to the center). He survived and has made a salvage. whether or not it actually hit his brain, im not sure.
Yes because as long as it does not hit the major arteries and veins in the brain its moderately possible to get shot in the head and not die. You may hold some disabilities related to the accident but you would still live.
yes, in Reader's digest a number of years ago some kidnapped kid survived 9 shots to the temple (head) next to a .22 cal rimfire handgun. no brain damage. just severe mental trauma.
Yeah, it's possible so long as no major blood vessels are hit and the region(s) of the brain hit aren't critical to that oodles function.. The odds aren't too good though as even the swelling will often motivation the brain to herniate, so the chances of walking away from a gun shot wound to the brain with a fair level of function aren't great; a lot of it depends on prompt surgical intervention in cases where the forgiving is salvageable.
Yes. A bullet to the cranium is survivable, and many are. The brain has plethora of blood vessels, and would other bleed if traversed by a bullet, nail, knife, bone or any foreign body. Degree of bleeding depends on the size and number of vessels violated. Survival and preservation of function depend mostly on preventing cerebral ischemia and uncal herniation which are consequences of an increasing intracranial pressure, from bleeding within the head and associated brain swelling. Cerebral ischemia a bit than herniation is the more common cause of death. Early surgical intervention though mandatory, is not other the rule. Some patients can survive w/out surgery, as long as the intracranial pressure is not allowed to increase, and produce a fatal cerebral ischemia, or worst uncal herniation. Source(s): Life contained by the trauma service.
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