Re: Kircheis (spoilers)
Kong Wong (Kongwong@mail.datadepot.com)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:17:20 -0700
S. Cousin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Rick Han Lin wrote:
> >
> > >From what I saw, Kircheis got shot at the carotide artery which supply
> > blood to the brain and He would not have made it. I believe Yang got shot
> > at the external illiac artery that supplies blood to the lower extremely.
>
> You can live without a cartoid or jugular vein (in fact you can lose
> both viens although not at the same time). There are two blood supplies
> to the brain the cartoid system and the vertibral system.
> According to the Chair of the Head & Neck course at University of
> Washington Medical School (who I actually asked) he shouldn't have dead
> from that wound; EXPECT from a lose of blood (ie. hypovolumic shock).
> I don't remember if Kircheis was chest shot was to the heart thou? I
> seem to remember it being on the right. If it hit the subclavian(sp) that
> would cause massive internal bleeding and would kill him.
>
> Of course the real reason Kircheis died is because he HAD to at that
> point of the story ^_^
>
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Seig got shot at least twice. One was through his neck's vain and the
other was through his chest or something. He didn't get it through the
heart because he would died immediately after that.