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What treatment will be needed if you cut a major artery in your leg?
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∙ 12y ago
Medical treatment definitely. Get to a hospital immediately, because the blood loss could kill you.
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When you will die when you cut vein or artery?
It depends on the severity of the cut. If you cut an artery, you are more likely to die, or at least more quickly.
Is it more dangerous to cut a vein or artery and why?
An artery because blood is pumped through the arteries at a much higher pressure than the veins. Therefore if you cut an artery you will lose a lot more blood a lot quicker than if you cut a vein.
What is an cut artery called and it bleeds?
Laceration
How wil blood flow out in case an artery is cut?
If an artery is cut, blood will flow out rapidly in a pulsating manner. These high pressure vessels can result in large blood loss iff cut.
What are the dangers of losing a lot of blood from the femoral artery?
You can die, If your Femoral artery gets cut you will be given a few minutes to live.
If you cut lightly on the top of your wrist is it as dangerous as the bottom?
not as bad. when you do the bottem you are slashing your radeal artery (cant spell srry.) on the top there is not a major artery.
How will the blood flow out in case an artery is cut?
how will blood flow out in case an artery is cut
When you will die when you cut vein or artery?
It depends on the severity of the cut. If you cut an artery, you are more likely to die, or at least more quickly.
If you cut a vein in your wrist and not an artery is it easier to stop the bleeding and therefore not die?
Yes with direct pressure. Veins return blood to the lungs to be oxygenized.. Arteries transport oxygenized blood from the lungs through the heart and pulsate so it would be especally dangerous to cut an artery. People have been saved though with direct pressure, in rare cases a tourniquet on a artery, and immediate medical treatment.
Difference between asphyxia and cut throat?
Asphyxia can happen when a person is choked, has a lack of oxygen and dies, but there are no cuts on the throat. A cut throat may only involve a major artery but not the windpipe.
Is it more dangerous to cut a vein or artery and why?
An artery because blood is pumped through the arteries at a much higher pressure than the veins. Therefore if you cut an artery you will lose a lot more blood a lot quicker than if you cut a vein.
What is an cut artery called and it bleeds?
Laceration
Can a Repairbe made on a cut pulmonary artery?
When a pulmonary artery has been cut, this can cause excessive bleeding. A cut pulmonary artery can be repaired through open heart surgery.
How will blood flow out in case an artery cut?
slow
What treatments are required for someone with a cut artery?
pressu
What does it mean if a doctor says he or she is about to dissect the distal end of the popliteal artery?
Cut the end of the artery going into the back of you knee at the far end of the artery.
What would happen if you cut the carotid arteries?
If the carotid artery is cut or severed it will cause death pretty quickly if the person does not receive medical attention quickly. You probably have minutes to live if the wound is deep enough.
