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A real survival technique?
So I’m curious about the emergency survival technique featured in Rambo 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2. It involves cauterising a flesh wound to the lower abdomen, caused by shrapnel or a bullet, by popping off the top of a bullet casing, pouring the gunpowder into the afflicted area and then using a piece of burning metal to ignite the gunpowder, cauterising and sealing the wound shut
Besides a high likelihood of risk from passing out due to the pain, putting toxic gunpowder chemicals into your bloodstream and a high chance of the wound becoming infected, would this actually help the situation, reduce or stop the bleeding and prolong life at all in the short term?
Is this just a made up survivalist trope or does it have some basis in truth?
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So I’m curious about the emergency survival technique featured in Rambo 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2. It involves cauterising a flesh wound to the lower abdomen, caused by shrapnel or a bullet, by popping off the top of a bullet casing, pouring the gunpowder into the afflicted area and then using a piece of burning metal to ignite the gunpowder, cauterising and sealing the wound shut
Besides a high likelihood of risk from passing out due to the pain, putting toxic gunpowder chemicals into your bloodstream and a high chance of the wound becoming infected, would this actually help the situation, reduce or stop the bleeding and prolong life at all in the short term?
Is this just a made up survivalist trope or does it have some basis in truth?
#activity
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