Worst sport injuries.....

[kickserv]

Been reading peoples comments about how the Kevin Ware injury was the worst they have seen.

Yes that one was bad........but besides death, I really don't know how anyone could forget the Clint Malarchuk injury. According to the Doctor (who was sitting in crowd behind the net) he was 90 seconds away from death.

That was the worst injury I have ever seen at a sporting event (besides someone dying of course).

 

[kickserv]

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[SixFive]

I had never seen that! Did his carotid get nicked in some way? Guess I can look up the details of the injury. Wow!!

 

[kickserv]

I had never seen that! Did his carotid get nicked in some way? Guess I can look up the details of the injury. Wow!!

Jugular was slit by a skate........

There was a doctor that was there watching the game, he was like 10 rows behind the net. He knew right away what was happening. He sprung into action and knew what to do. In that video you don't see him but he pretty much saved Malarchuk's life.

It does not take long at all to bleed out when your jugular is slit. Did you see how much blood after like 5 seconds:scared

Malarchuk was very close to death.

I am no Doctor but isn't the carotid artery and jugular vein pretty much the same thing?

 

[canuckfan77]

Clint Malarchuk?s neck injury happened during an NHL game between St. Louis Blues and Buffalo Sabres on March 22, 1989. The Sabres goalie Malarchuk watched as his teammate Uwe Krupp and Steve Tuttle of the Blues crashed into his goal chasing the puck and took Steve Tuttle skate to the neck. The skate?s blade severed Malarchuk?s carotid artery, resulting in rapid blood loss.

It was reported that as Clint Malarchuk?s blood spurted by the gallons on the ice, 3 hockey players threw up, 2 fans suffered heart attacks and 11 more fainted. Clint Malarchuk reportedly believed he was going to die. He asked an equipment manager to call his mom and tell her that he loved her and then asked for a priest.

Needless to say, he did come within an inch of death. Luckily Jim Pizzutelli, the trainer for the Blues who had been an army medic stuffed his fingers into the Clint?s neck wound and pinched the artery to stop the bleeding. Given the rate of blood loss, he would have been dead within 3 to 4 minutes. Putting a towel or any other fabric over the wound would simply not do. It took someone balsy enough to shove his fingers right into the bloody cut to save the goalie?s life.

To close the neck wound, the doctors had to apply a total of 300 stitches. If he had died, Clint Malarchuk would have become the third hockey player to die in the NHL history, after Howie Morenz (1937) and Bill Masterton (1968).

 

[kickserv]

I was just going to post that about the trainer......Clint was dead if the trainer wasn't an army medic and if the Doctor wasn't in the crowd.

I knew he passed out, but I did not know he asked for a priest before he passed out:scared

I also didn't know two fans had heart attacks:scared

I do remember watching that game on TV and seeing it live when it happened.

Anytime I see a terrible injury in sports I always think of Clint.

Clint should be dead.........but he isn't. He is currently coaching the Flames by the way:

http://flames.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=69861

 

[snoopol]

I stopped watching hockey after 2nd lockout when roenick said fans can kiss his ass buti gotta admitt those guys as tough as they come.

Soccer and hoops players just a bunch of pussies next to nhl guy.

 

[kickserv]

Soccer and hoops players just a bunch of pussies next to nhl guy.

True.

 

[Morris]

Wow never saw that. Frightening to say the least.

 

[kickserv]

Wow never saw that. Frightening to say the least.

Yep.....I can't think of an injury more frightening then that one.

 

[saint]

Jim Pizzutelli, the trainer for the Blues who had been an army medic stuffed his fingers into the Clint?s neck wound and pinched the artery to stop the bleeding.

This should be next to the word BADASS in the dictionary.

 

[kickserv]

This should be next to the word BADASS in the dictionary.

agreed.

 

[kickserv]

Documentary on Clint Malarchuk's life..........

Goalie: Life and Death in the Crease


Here is the trailer.......

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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/148901338">Goalie: Life and Death in the Crease - Trailer</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user20185122">Pyramid Productions</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>


I watched the documentary, his childhood sucked big time, but he overcame it and made the NHL, very impressive to say the least.

 

[fatdaddycool]

Kick,
Arteries carry oxygenated blood to the arterioles then passes into the capillaries where it diffuses oxygen out into the interstitial fluid and infuses carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide laden blood is then routed through capillaries into the venules and ultimately the veins. The veins carry the blood back to the heart.
Arterial blood is at a considerably higher pressure than veins. When blood is shooting out, it's arterial. There is simply not enough pressure in the veins to shoot it out. Artery walls are thicker and stronger than veins.
So in answer to your question, no the carotid artery is not the same thing as the jugular.

Hope this helps,
FDC

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[kickserv]

So in answer to your question, no the carotid artery is not the same thing as the jugular.

 

[The Joker]

:mj07:

 

[Eddie Haskell]

not that there's anything wrong with that.

Eddie