Massive blood loss. Circulatory system emergencies
Description
As Dr. Gunther von Hagens makes clear in this program, a shortage of blood can mean insufficient oxygen reaches the major organs-usually resulting in shock and organ failure. The program opens with a graphic bleeding demonstration, re-creating injury to blood vessels in the hand of a cadaver. Von Hagens then examines the consequences of blood loss in the body's vital organs by creating knife-wounds in the torso of a frozen body, then sawing it into slices to reveal the path of the blades and the shocking extent of the damage. The program also explores a less well-known cause of blood loss-fractured bones-which von Hagens illustrates in an experiment in which a femur dissected from a fresh cadaver is made to bleed as it would in life.
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48 min
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[2009], c2008
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