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

[mauvais]

Once you've started to use the phrase "wound management", things are already pretty bleak aren't they?

 

[DotCommunist]

Once you've started to use the phrase "wound management", things are already pretty bleak aren't they?

getting to a field hospital and hearing the word triage, equally grim. Nooo

 

[Jon-of-arc]

One of our competitors was called "systagenix wound management". Just means stitching people up, really (in the physical sense, not the being-a-bastard sense).

 

[CNT36]

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?

Daredevil was a recent one.

 

[8den]

Rambo III is the daddy of macho field surgery....

 

[not-bono-ever]

I can recall one where there was a hole through the shoulder- it is filled with powder and ignited at the front- giving an impressive flameout on at the exit would- what was that ?

 

[quimcunx]

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

I just watched this 8 minutes ago. It was tied round the radiator.

 

[Gromit]

I can recall one where there was a hole through the shoulder- it is filled with powder and ignited at the front- giving an impressive flameout on at the exit would- what was that ?

That's the one I'm trying to remember.

It's a through and through wound and cauterises all the way through. Very impressive. Can't for the life of me remember. I thought it might have been First Blood for some reason but then remembered that was just a self stiching scene.

Found the scene:

via youtube

 

[electroplated]

That's the one I'm trying to remember.

It's a through and through wound and cauterises all the way through. Very impressive. Can't for the life of me remember. I thought it might have been First Blood for some reason but then remembered that was just a self stiching scene.

<ahem> #4

 

[mauvais]

One of our competitors was called "systagenix wound management". Just means stitching people up, really (in the physical sense, not the being-a-bastard sense).

Cos it suggests, to me anyway, that the 'patient' is going to have to suck it up with a limited bit of intervention & plod on with whatever adventure/battle/etc they're embarked on.

I've had worse! It's merely a manageable wound!

 

[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.

See here:

Screen Surgery & Film First Aid #001: Shooter
Screen Surgery & Film First Aid #002: Shooter
Screen Surgery & Film First Aid #003: Shooter

 

[sim667]

In the vikings tv show (series 3 I think) torstein has his arm amputed and cauterised with a hot axe.

 

[Maltin]

Bajirao Mastani.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

The bit in braveheart where one of the older soldiers has an arrow pulled out and then cauterised with a hot poker.

I think torturing someone and then cauterising the wound for them surely deserves some sort of bonus point doesn't it? I can't think of any other film this happens in, none that i've seen anyway, other than man on fire where Denzil's victim is parted company with his fingers via a pair of wire cutters and then has the wound immediately fixed, by Denzil himself no less, by shoving a car cigarette lighter onto the stump before moving on to the next finger.

Edit: Man on fire already mentioned but I'm leaving it here anyway.

 

[stdP]

Borderline example, but Judge Dredd from the film Dredd (based on the Judge Dredd comics featuring comic superhero Judge Dredd) uses some futuristic sort of cauterising space-savlon-o-matic on an abdominal wound.

I haven't watched it in yonks, but didn't Road to Perdition have some sort cauterising scene in it?

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.

There's a scene like that in Dog Soldiers where the sarge's intestines are bursting out so they stick 'em back in with superglue that sounds very like the scene you mention. The version of the story I heard about the active ingredient in superglue, cyanoacrylate, was that it was a failed attempt to create a new clear plastic for either cockpit windows or aerial gunsights during WW2. Wikipedia expands on that and says it was just for the gunsight thing, t'was summarily rejected but picked up by Kodak in 1951, sold as an adhesive by 1958 and sold to loctite in 1960 who gave it the superglue moniker and a form of it was in medical use in the US military by 1966. The official medical-grade superglue is called dermabond and has been in use since the 90s.

 

[mystic pyjamas]

Every other episode of the walking dead.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The official medical-grade superglue is called dermabond

That's because it sets hard in just 007 seconds

 

[belboid]

Anton Chigurh's knee in No Country for Old Men

Ash giving himself a chainsaw arm in Evil Dead II (ohh, that one's already in)

 

[evildacat]

There is a scene in the blacklist season one where a shotgun wound is cortirised with gun powder and they also place something in donalds mouth for him to bite down on.

Bonus points for a field blood transfusion also?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ironclad 2: Battle For Blood.

 

[Bakunin]

getting to a field hospital and hearing the word triage, equally grim. Nooo

Although work in field hospitals is sometimes known as 'meatball surgery.' It isn't fancy or as it would be in a hospital at home, just whipping them into theatre in order of seriousness, doing enough to keep them alive and then shipping them back home when they're well enough to survive the trip.
The history of military medicine is actually a fascinating subject if you've got the stomach for it.

 

[HAL9000]

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.

real first aid website is great with lots of practical advice, if you want use super glue buy the stuff vets use........

superglue

A cheaper alternative...Veterinary Glues
If you are looking for something for your personal first aid kit and don't fancy spending £120 on 6 x 5ml vials of Derma Bond, veterinary glues are commercially available as a happy compromise; not licensed for use on humans but essentially the same stuff in a different wrapper.

2-octyl cyanoacrylate Surgi-Lock and Nexaband
n-butyl cyanoacrylate VetGlu, Vetbond and LiquiVet

Conclusion
Using glue to close wounds may have been pioneered 50 years ago and continually perfected clinically ever since as well as an established treatment for climbers, string musicians and garage mechanics around the world...but that doesn't mean it is a panacea.

Given the number of limitations in its use and the issues of liability we would not advise glue is used to treat others. If you choose to use it to treat yourself, do so...with care and full understanding.

Direct Pressure will stop the majority of even the most serious bleeding wounds and where Direct pressure is not enough there are other options including tourniquets and haemostatic agents, both of which are covered on our Remote First Aid and First Person on Scene courses.

 

[DotCommunist]

Jackie Chan in The Foriegner. He's double hard, trained in saigon in the 60s etc, so when he is shot he seals the wound with the flat of a heated knife, no gunpowder

 

[SpookyFrank]

In Lost Charlie gets a head wound cauterized with the gunpowder from a rifle shell.

 

[SpookyFrank]

And in GoT Thoros of Myr gets a burning-sword cauterisin' after being attacked by a zombie bear.