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Posted: 9/15/2012 4:13:06 PM EDT
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Quoted: You probably won't make it unless you happen to be standing in a good ER when the tear occurs... and you might not make it anyway. Several hockey players have survived due to quick thinking coaches. |
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Posted: 9/15/2012 4:15:56 PM EDT
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If its massive it can be anyones guess but rather quickly.
Generally I have heard 2 minutes bleeding out, 2 minutes without air, 2 days without water, 2 weeks without food = death. |
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Posted: 9/15/2012 4:25:21 PM EDT
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Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm has a mortality rate of something like 65% if the patient is already in the hospital when it happens.
The average person's cardiac output is around 5 or 6 liters per minute, and that's how much they'll lose if you're talking about cutting the aorta right after the left ventricle. That's about the average person's entire blood volume in 1 minute. |
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Posted: 9/15/2012 4:38:15 PM EDT
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I lost an old friend to this just two weeks ago . It was VERY fast . The doctors knew about the aneurism . Nobody wanted to touch him . He died several hours before they were
to perform surgery . 
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Posted: 9/15/2012 7:42:32 PM EDT
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From the death investigations I've been involved in where an aortic dissection was a factor, I'd say very little pain and a quick death. Now the trauma from an injury in which the aorta was severed would be pretty painful, but pain would subside as 02 deprivation set in. You would be very wrong. Aortic dissection is incredibly painful, and depending on the location and how quickly the dissection propagates, could take a while. Aortic rupture is fast... and almost unsurvivable if it happens in the field. |
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