How long does it take to die from a stab to the heart?

Answer 1

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Seconds to minutes unless the stabbing instrument is still embedded in the heart or if one of the atria got stabbed, if it was a ventricle death can be immediate.

Many variables here. What you are stabbed with? What is your condition level? What part of the heart is stabbed? How many times you are stabbed? How many chambers of the heart are compromised? Is the pericardium able to let the blood out or holding it in causing a tamponade (stopping the heart from filling because of pressure outside the heart)? What the weapon left in or pulled out? Large knife penetrating completely through the heart - left in, about a minute or so - pulled out, very quickly. Small knife or screwdriver penetrating the heart completely - left in, you could live to tell about it - pulled out a tamponade death within seconds. Just the left ventricle - weapon left in, you have chance to live to tell about it - just the right ventricle, or either auricle, weapon left in, maybe you make it - pulled out, a tamponade death within seconds. I survived a 7" long, 1" wide blade completely through the left ventricle and survived because the knife was left buried in my chest and a officer found me just after I was stabbed. He knew how to keep me going until the medics got there. People do survive - but usually because they get immediate help, are in good condition and the weapon is left in.

Answer 2

There's a limit of about10 minutes to help your chance of survival all though there is cases of sum of people surviving longer times the blood being restricted from your brain will cause brain damage this in utter fact leaves very little question of you coming back

Answer 3

depends on where the bullet enters, if it exits and if it hits a major blood vessel If it hits a major vessel you can bleed to death in less than one minute. If it misses a major vessel but exits than air can enter lung area causing air to be trapped in lung cavity then the patient cannot breath properly, organs begin to shift, less air is exchange and the patient will die.

Answer 4

This is a curious question - usually, today most caliber weapons would result in near instant death. Small caliber bullets would most likely cause tamponade (blood filling the pericardium and stopping the heart from filling) and death within a few seconds. Large caliber bullets rip the heart apart and cause death instantly. Now there is almost always a few seconds of Consciousness where the person shot realizes their are shot but death is so quick that there is not time to respond.

Answer 5

Five seconds.

However, this depends where in the heart; it could be instant.

Answer 6

It will take a few moments.

Answer 7

About 1-5 minutes.