film/tv where someone cuaterizes a wound with crude field surgery.

[DotCommunist]

Bonus points if they do it to themselves

I've got so far:

Dicaprio in The Revenant. Extra points for using gunpowder for the job on an open throat wound

Predator 2. Pred smashes up a bathroom and does something alien that is pretty much the same technique.

Seraphim Falls. Brosnan uses a heated kife blade iirc


more?

 

[Bakunin]

Papillon. Papillon cauterises and curets Dega's infected leg injury with a heated knife.

 

[Pickman's model]

the vikings i think, kirk douglas iirc

 

[electroplated]

Rambo III - gunpowder in bullet wound

 

[Orang Utan]

Funnily enough, was just reading this:
Clive James: ‘Steven Seagal restores himself through aikido training. I have tried it and it works’

 

[Orang Utan]

Jason Statham undergoes some ridiculous heart surgery in Crank 2

 

[DotCommunist]

the Revenant didn't have the crucial element of 'bit of leather/hard wood in the mouth to stop you biting your tounge off' bit which raises such scenes to 100% win. But he did scream impressively then pass out from the pain so its deffo an 80%er of the genre

 

[electroplated]

Clint Eastwood cauterises an arrow wound with gunpowder in Two Mules for Sister Sara

 

[Orang Utan]

Matt Damon performs surgery on his stomach after being impaled in The Martian

 

[Miss-Shelf]

The one where the climber falls in a gully and gets stuck and then amputated has hand/arm to get out

 

[Miss-Shelf]

What about one where someone has to do an impromptu c section?

 

[Orang Utan]

The one where the climber falls in a gully and gets stuck and then amputated has hand/arm to get out

127 Hours (I saw a pirate DVD of it in Mumbai, entitled 127 Days)

 

[dessiato]

There's a TV programme about two blokes, one of whom never wears shoes, the other allegedly American special forces, who did the cauterizing with gunpowder thing to see if it worked. It does.

 

[hot air baboon]

.....the medicinal arm chopping and cauterisation scene in Romero's Day of the Dead is a classic...

.....for the record there;s a fairly crap one featuring Henry Cavill ( cauterizee ) in The Cold Light of Day....

 

[DotCommunist]

Matt Damon performs surgery on his stomach after being impaled in The Martian

yeah but he uses a med pack and stitches. Its hard, but its not as hard as the gunpowder cauterisation treatment

 

[tommers]

First series of Fargo, Billy Bob sets his own broken leg using a length of cord held in his teeth (I think).

 

[xes]

that's not cutting/cuaterising

 

[DotCommunist]

that's not cutting/cuaterising

xes has it right, honorable mentions for ridiculous film/tv field surgery are accepted but this thread is specifically for the sealing of wounds by burning them.

 

[felixthecat]

2 Mules for Sister Sara - Clint Eastwood gets an arrow wound to his shoulder which is cauterised. Used a hot arrow head and gunpowder if I remember correctly. Clint was always nails

eta Oooooh thought of another... John Carpenters Vampires. Its done several times in that film once very coolly with the hot barrel of a just fired gun

 

[Cid]

It's not how you lose it, it's what you put on afterwards:

 

[8115]

What about one where someone has to do an impromptu c section?

Prometheus?

 

[tommers]

that's not cutting/cuaterising

Neither is Matt Damon sewing up his stomach.

 

[EastEnder]

Universal Soldier - Van Dam uses a car ciggie lighter to cauterise a bullet wound. Doesn't even flinch. What a guy.

 

[gosub]

Universal Soldier - Van Dam uses a car ciggie lighter to cauterise a bullet wound. Doesn't even flinch. What a guy.

maybe its coz he can't act.

 

[StoneRoad]

Master & Commander - Maturin uses a mirror to remove musket/pistol ball from himself after one of the marine officer's shoots him, accidentally, whilst aiming at seabirds.

Off camera in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves - the Moor delivers a baby, possibly with surgical assistance. (certainly that is implied).

Several of the "Sharpe" programmes have battlefield "surgery"

MASH 4077 - the whole series !

 

[hot air baboon]

Universal Soldier - Van Dam uses a car ciggie lighter to cauterise a bullet wound.

...similar lighter usage by Denzel Washington in Man on Fire....something to do with finger removal iirc...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ace sniper Marky Mark performs some basic field surgery on himself using only stuff from a local drugstore after some serious GSW badness in Shooter.

 

[vogonity]

There's a very funny piss-take of the "crude surgery in the field" moments in action movies by Keenan Ivory Wayans in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!

Oh, and Matt Damon sorts out a bullet wound with shop-lifted own brand vodka and other bargain items in The Bourne Supremacy.

 

[Teenage Cthulhu]

The Revenant. I think. I was very tired when I watched it.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Some film I once saw where a triangle of flesh is hanging of some dude, and someone uses some superglue they bought in a shop to glue it back together, saying that superglue was invented for soldiers in 'nam to do field dressings. Although this isn't entirely correct (I think it had previous applications), you can get medical grade superglue for wound management. When I worked for the big pharma company, we had samples which we would use for day to day gluing purposes. I suspect you might be in a bit if trouble if you start using a tube of hobby store superglue for real diy surgery.