What's the worse knife cut you've ever encountered?

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samo

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Folks, the worse ever knife cut I've ever seen was a boy who severed his index finger while attempting to close his folding knife in company family day outing.
People did nothing to help this poor kid but watched in horror as the he was crying on top of his lungs. I managed to control the bleeding and fixed the damage.
Thanks to guy who was smart enough to put the little digit into a plastic bag full of ice and rushed him to the hospital!
Quick reaction saved this child. He is now able to use the injured finger again. I'm sure you folks out there had more gruesome experiences, so lets hear it...

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Treatmenmt of severed digits should be: put the severed part (rinse it off if it is really dirty) into a plastic bag; then put the bag into ice. You try and not soak the severed part in icewater; it swells the tissue.

Successful reanastamosis (reattachment) probability depends on the level of injury, as the nerves and blood vessels get smaller the nearer the finger tip.

Base of finger; good chance to save; middle joint; maybe, maybe not; joint nearest finger tip, doubtful.

Worst cuts I saw as ER MD were caused by glass, not by knives. Be very, very careful in the shower if you have glass doors.

Walt
 
Walt,
Those pointers were certainly very educational. I'll stay out of fully glass enclosed areas!!
Thanks for sharing your valuable experience my good man!
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A slip of the Boker King Kutter while carving a wooden spoon out of yellow cedar, right to the bone. I can still see the stitch marks. Darn, that hurt! But the cruelest cut of all was in seventh grade, I think.... right to the heart!
 
when i was at band camp and a guy was sharpening his knife on a stone on his leg and like slipped off and dug into his thigh like really deep and blood was gushing everywhere cuz he like hit an artery and like died on the spot! cuz everyone was shocked and just stood there and watched him die!
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Herman,
Very interesting but really, one time (mot at band camp) I was sharpening a cheapo 9" Bowie in my living room after having a LOT of coffee (most of my cuts happen after I say that). Well I was holding my 6" med. ark. bench stone in my hand (bad idea but I like the control of it) when I slipped. Cut my left ring finger to the bone and wiped off all those fines in the wound. I should have gotten stitches as when my wife came home 4.5 hours later it still hadn't closed no matter how much pressure and cleaning I did. And well it finally closed and healed up "mostly" i still get a little bobble in movement years later. That's just about the best one I've done well except the open compound facture to my leg but that didn't have anything to do with knives or "cutting" really more like brutal tearing of the flesh.

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Well It wasn't a really a knife inflicted injury to begin with, but I saw an episode of 20/20 or something like that where they interviewed a guy who amputated his own leg with his pocket knife.
He was out in the woods clearing out dead stuff when a BIG ****ing tree aka. BFT, fell the opposite direction of what he expected and almost turned him into a little stain in the ground. It did end up smashing one of his legs though. So there he is lying on his back screaming, all alone in the woods with a BFT pinning him to the ground with his crushed leg. So he pulls out what looked like one of the old all steel pen knives made by Case. It was pretty good sized though, and starts hacking away at whats left of he leg. Then he crawls to his truck and drives 20 miles down the road to get help.
The moral of the story is... thats gotta hurt like hell, and you should never cut trees down ontop of yourself.
I think had it been me, I might have to try and cut the tree away with the CHAINSAW I was using when the tree fell on me, and only if that failed, and I thought I had no other chance of surviving would I start amputating things.But thats just me.

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It'll feel better when it stops hurting.
 
I live near a real redneck bar that I used to occasionaly frequent with my (soon to be) ex-wife. Well, a couple of nice southern gentlemen got into a disagreement over some stupid $hit so, like the real men they were they "stepped out side" to continue their discussion. A couple of minutes later We all heard some louder than normal yelling and went outside to see one of the afore mentioned gentlemen now holding his intestines. Or at least attempting too. That had to be the worst one.

Kris

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Saw an episode of TRAUMA in which some poor joke had a 6 inch hunting knife HILTED into the top of his head. As Bruce Campbell would say "That's gotta hurt!"

Believe it or nut... the guy survived.

Ben
 
Well, I can't beat that, but my father was driving to work one day, when a guy flags him down from the side of the road. This guy and his father were hunting, and his father had nothing better to do, so he was whittling with a really big bowie knife (sorry, but I don't have the actual measurements). The gusy slips and puts the knife right into his leg, and starts bleeding like crazy. I assume he hit the big vein (I should know the name, but I don't), as the artery should lead to death fairly quickly, right Walt? Anyway, the guy was bleeding so badly that my father applied a tournequit (sp?) after sending the son to the house across the street from where he had flagged down my father, to call 911 (so, the guy wasn't that bright, flagging down cars when he could be calling the EMTs). If you knew my father's feelings on what constitutes just cause to apply a tournequit, then you would know how much this guy was bleeding.

That's my story. Luckily, I've never had anything too major happen to me (knock on wood, G10, Micarta, Carbon Fiber, and steel, just to cover all the bases
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--JB

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The worst injury I've ever had was a folder failing and splitting my index finger nuckle(spelling ?). Still hurts like hell in the winter.

Dark Nemesis

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All the knives in the world go round and round, round and round, round and round...DAMN, one of them took my wallet !!! :)
 
Had my left index finger tip grafted back together after taking a slash from a guy I came upon who was attacking a girl.

Doc at the ER said I'd lose the tip, but I told him to sew the piece back on and let nature take its course. He did and nature did and after about 7 weeks it finally healed up. Looked odd colorwise for a long while, but after a year or two you couldn't even tell without being shown.

Moral: If you fight a guy with a knife, don't block with your hand. Take a step back if you can. In any case, the matter ended up the right way, so I'm not complaining.

Blues

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When I was 13 years old and a counselor in training at summer camp, I was bitten by a rattlesnake.
I was on a hike with 8 or 9 other kids and we were a couple of miles away from any facilities.
The bite was on my ankle.
I took my belt off and wrapped it around my leg above my knee.
The other kids took out their dull boy scout knives and attempted to cut the suggested "X" in my flesh to remove the poison.
Several of them helped me in this way.
Anyway, when I finally got to the hospital, the Doctor laughed and said that the cuts were probably more threatening than the bite itself
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I still have scars.
Bill

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A couple of years ago I somehow managed to cut my head off. It was a clean cut wasn't like it was jagged or anything. The hard part was feeling around and locating it since it had rolled under the kitchen table. Sewing it back on my neck proved easier then I thought but when I had put the last stitch in...Ya you guessed it I had sewn it on backwards. Well I had to go through the whole procedure all over again and kept thinking there must be an easier way to re-attach a cut off head. I am now the proud wearer of a velcro head attacher and never have to worry about loosing my head again.
Bob
 
Worst on myself was with a Spyderco cricket..Ended up depressing the liner lock and the knife folded.it cut my middle finger from first knuckle to the rear of the fingernail,could see the bone,8 stitches I belive. Worst Ive ever seen Im sad to say I had to inflict on another man.Long story but he ended up with 3 cuts total. Left arm cut twice,from sholder to mid forearm.One of the cuts severed the main vessel in his arm. third and last cut was across his back begining from just below right shoulder and exiting just above left kidney..LEO' and paramedics told me it took 300+ stitches to close him. they also said at its deepest cut they could place most of their hand inside on him..when found his heart had stopped from lose of blood ,but they were able to resesistate(sp?) him on route to Hospital.

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As a Radiologic Technologist I usually x-ray most severe cuts to see the ammount of damage to the bone. On living patients it's a toss-up between a guy who had his leg chain-sawed by a friend (by accident), and an idiot who reached under his lawn-mower (I don't know why, he was intoxicated).
The chainsaw patient loss a huge chunk of his thigh (looked like a shark attack) but the leg was saved. The "mower-man" loss most of his right hand but still retained the thumb (very useful).
On deceased patients the worse one, hands down, was a guy who had his hands and head cut off. They determined he was killed first and then the parts were removed to hinder identification.
 
Guys, this is the latest. I was on graveyard watch last week when a despatch call came in at 3am in the morning.
Went to the Emergency room just in time to catch a glimpse of this guy who had five stab wounds in his chest.
He didn't make it. My sources from the local police station revealed that he was fatally stabbed with a bayonet.
Well, in Malaysia, attacks with "parangs" or a local equivalent to the Machette was common. The hoods still clash with home made swords because gun control is very tight in Malaysia.
Where I work, we'd actuall archived photos of people with missing limbs after they got hacked.
Three days ago, a seven-year-old girl was found stabbed nine times with a pair of scissors because she had no money to pay her 13-year-old muggers.
In my job as a reporter in a local afternoon daily, gory stuff are kinda like the norm. **** happens everyday...
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