After effects of a Karambit.. VERY GRAPHIC video

[ColdSteel223]

VERY GRAPHIC. I do not know anything about if this guy was the winner or loser, good guy or bad guy, lived or died.

More than likely this damage (cuts) were inflicted in 2 seconds or so.

This is real life stuff. Please evaluate your training and kit. What could you do keep this man/yourself alive until help arrived?





Karambit on Yahoo! Video

 

[misconfig]

Holy crap, that is VERY graphic.

 

[rockhopper46038]

jeesh.

 

[iamaclone45]

Uhmmmmm airway management pronto..... Keeping his airway open and clear is about the best thing you can do for this man while you wait for help to arrive, but he’s got some injuries that will make this complicated.

These injuries will likely overwhelm anyone without medical training. The guts hanging out really isn’t that big of a deal initially. Just cover them and hope they stay where they are at.

The slash across the neck is the injury that is going to kill him the quickest. Keeping his airway open and clear is going to keep you busy for a few minutes, assuming you have the tools to even manage this. Swelling of the airway and blood will be your biggest enemies here.

Looks like his trachea is slashed. In the event he stops breathing, standard mouth to mouth assistance isn’t going to get you very far if this is the case. He will need more advanced management (intubation [if the trachea is intact] or even a cricothyrotomy - hey they already made the incision...haha)

Either way this I don’t think this dude is going to last long without surgical intervention.

 

[grunt soldier]

this should probably go into the survival and disaster prep forum since were talking about evaluating kit and what not. i could keep him alive long enough for medics to get to him but if its any longer than that he is a goner for sure. i mean to treat something like that you have to be a trained professional and spent many years doing it.

i would like to see the video of it happening cause he got tore the f' up

 

[abrumlev]

Uhmmmmm airway management pronto..... either way this I don’t think this dude is going to last long without surgical intervention.

You know what you're talking about. Not a fun situation to say the least...military medic/good emt within minutes is the only thing saving this guy.

 

[Que]

Keep the airway clear, as already stated. Get rid of the laughing lunatics, as to prevent him from going into [panic] shock.

 

[tradertator]

Sorry, I wasn't ready for that.

 

[96firephoenix]

this is why you bring guns to knife fights.

 

[pftraining_in]

VERY GRAPHIC. I do not know anything about if this guy was the winner or loser, good guy or bad guy, lived or died. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nd0j01O0BY&feature=player_embedded

Looks like the loser.

 

[TiminMishawaka]

If I'm in a SHTF scenario and am looking like that, you have my permission to put a hollow point in my head. My soul's ready and I'm not about to got out dying from a slow infection death.

 

[451_Detonics]

Amazing what a fairly small blade can do...

and the video has been deleted...

 

[ColdSteel223]

Reposted on Yahoo video.

 

[Blaze261]

Took alot of guts to lay there getting video taped. Couldn't understand the language, but hopefully he is at a decent hospital. Surprised they are not rushing him back to surgery and sedating him.

 

[TiminMishawaka]

Amazing what a fairly small blade can do...

I was reading a renaissance era text on fencing that stated that a blade need only penetrate "the width of three fingers" to be a mortal wound.

 

[NordicHeathenVinlander]

Obviously this was the loser, and obviously the attacker was a novice.

With any sharp weapon, there are vitals you target for a quick death.

 

[shooter521]

With any sharp weapon, there are vitals you target for a quick death.

You assume the goal was to kill the other party quickly. I can think of many scenarios where it might not be. For instance, what if this was gang-related, and the perp deliberately left his victim in this state to set an example or send a message?

 

[Bill of Rights]

Obviously this was the loser, and obviously the attacker was a novice.

With any sharp weapon, there are vitals you target for a quick death.

Disagree. We don't know what the other guy looked like. Maybe this guy DID bring a gun to the knife fight, it just took him a wee bit longer to deploy it.

I also agree with Shooter: if this was "sending a message" or even if this was "I gonna keel you slowwwwww, mang!" (i.e. torture) there are any number of reasons why a quick death may not have been the goal.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[NordicHeathenVinlander]

I disagree on both counts, from the video as the source of my opinion.


Examine the areas which were attacked. He was intended to die.

Most likely the individual was an innocent victim; There is nothing which suggest he was a gang member.

 

[bwframe]

Obviously this was the loser, and obviously the attacker was a novice.

With any sharp weapon, there are vitals you target for a quick death.

Not necessarily. From what is known in this thread, the "victim" could have well been an armed attacker, getting a close range shot off. "Walking dead" the other would deploy the kbit from low to high, exactly as was done.

this is why you bring guns to knife fights.

No offense, but it's a mistake to think this way.