The truth about the danger of being shot is far different from the movies

Do you watch Hollywood movies? Yes, this is where the heroes will fight fiercely with dozens of bad guys, and after shooting down the bearded guys, the final boss will shoot the fatal shot to the shoulder, leg or anywhere on our main character. But you know, the main character cannot die.

Then the boss is shot down by a series of bullets and the hero survives thanks to his super strength. Sounds cool but the truth is not, bullet wounds are really dangerous even if they are soft. Today we will learn together what happens to the body when shot and how to survive!

Bullet wounds

Obviously the director would never let the main character get shot in the head, because at that point there would be no way to save him, certainly getting shot in the shoulder or leg would make you look pretty 'cool' because it hurts but you still try to endure it. But it's all just imagination because just a shot in the shoulder and especially in the leg can be fatal.

The truth about how dangerous it is to be shot

You know, bullets fly so fast that you probably won't even see them. Police often use 9mm rounds and their speed is an astonishing 1,448 km/h, while the 5.56mm American rifles usually have a speed of 3,291 km/h. Others like the Russian AK and the American heavy machine guns use 7.62mm rounds with a speed of about 2,963 km/h. The 9mm round, despite its small size, packs 542J of energy, while the 5.56mm has about 1,763J and the 7.62mm has a whopping 3,525J.

Bullets
fly so fast that you probably won't see anything.

Have you ever wondered where all the energy goes when a bullet enters your body? It is none other than the soft tissues of your body. When the bullet enters, with tremendous speed and spin, your flesh will expand and form a cavity, but it will immediately contract to return to its original shape.

This process takes place in a very short time, not only the surrounding tissue but also the nerves, blood vessels are severed, and the muscles are torn apart. The shock from the bullet can seriously damage the internal organs, even if they do not penetrate any organs.

The
shock from a gunshot can cause serious damage to internal organs.

In action movies, the main character is often shot in the arm or leg, then he tries to stop the bleeding and gets ready to go back to fight. But in reality, things are not that simple, if you are shot in the shoulder and especially in the bone, it is quite serious. The reason is that bullets are made up of different layers of materials, they fly very fast and will easily fragment when hitting hard objects like bones. At this point, our body is a mess of many broken bullet fragments as well as bone fragments. More dangerously, when bullets break, they will fly in different directions, causing extremely serious damage to soft tissue and surrounding organs.

If
you get shot in the shoulder and especially in the bone, it's pretty serious.

Not only that, when they hit the bones, they tend to bounce back into the body cavity and cause serious damage to the organ system. On the other hand, our body is also very smart, it will react immediately when an allergen invades. For example, after being shot, our blood vessels will be severed, at this time the body will try to pump as much blood as possible to the surrounding area to avoid tissue necrosis. That is why we often see the phenomenon of blood flowing profusely when shot.

Our body

How to survive being shot

Although being shot is extremely dangerous, you can still survive if you receive emergency care in time. However, losing blood too quickly will cause death to come within minutes or even seconds. Scientists have studied for decades and have finally determined that the best way to survive a gunshot wound is to try to stop the bleeding, preventing it from flowing out as little as possible.

If you
get shot, you can still survive if you get timely first aid.

So is there any way to prevent this? Yes, try using a piece of cloth or tearing your shirt to bandage the wound, you should bandage it tightly enough and maintain constant pressure. If you are shot in the limb, bandage it as above and try to raise the limb above the heart to minimize blood loss. After initial treatment, you should still quickly go to the hospital for timely emergency care. But if the distance to the hospital is too far, the only way is to try to maintain pressure and absolutely do not remove the bandage - no matter how much blood flows. Sometimes, bandaging the wound too tightly can also make the tear worse, at which point more blood will flow because you accidentally broke the blood clot.

Try
using a piece of cloth or tearing off your shirt to bandage the wound.

In addition to self-stopping bleeding with bandages, there are certainly other methods in movies such as using heat to stop bleeding, which is essentially using heat to burn and create a plug right at the beginning of the blood vessel so that the blood cannot flow anymore. (Similar to the method of burning blood vessels with an electric knife in medical surgery). But this method is only suitable for some types of wounds, if not careful you can burn the surrounding skin. And more seriously, if performed in an unsafe environment, the burns can cause infection and be the cause of death instead of death due to blood loss.

This method

Tried both methods, what if the bleeding still doesn't stop? Time for the last resort. If the wound is on your arm or leg, use a stick and a long piece of cloth. Then use one end of the cloth to tie above the wound, wrap the other end around the stick, and then try to rotate the stick in a circle like a crank. This will tighten the cloth around your limb to its maximum - it's very painful but you have to endure it if you don't want to die from blood loss.

If
you are injured in the arm or leg, you will use a stick and a long cloth.

Bandaging like this will help stop all blood flow to the wound. And everything has its price, although it is an effective method to stop bleeding, if you are not taken to the hospital in time, you may lose your arm or leg. Why? Because the body's tissues are only nourished when they are fully supplied with blood, tying them so tightly will cause insufficient blood to nourish the tissues and cause them to become necrotic, eventually having to amputate the arm or leg. But anyway, life is still more important, right? So try to stop the bleeding by all means.

With modern medicine today, gunshot wounds can be easily treated. Doctors often use the term 'G-hour' in treatment, which means that if the victim is quickly taken to the hospital within the first hour, most of them will be saved. Kaka, Vietnam is peaceful so don't worry too much about being shot, unless you are a criminal being hunted by the police or just some crazy prank.