Failure drill, why?

[GRV]

Doc, any thoughts about Mr_White's question from that thread? https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....ll=1#post80036

i.e., How do bodies tend to react from being successfully hit in the brain, but above the area circled in yellow?

[Mr_White]

Doc, any thoughts about Mr_White's question from that thread? https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....ll=1#post80036

i.e., How do bodies tend to react from being successfully hit in the brain, but above the area circled in yellow?

BehindBlueI's put a response to that question here: https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....-Targets/page3

[Nephrology]

BehindBlueI's put a response to that question here: https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....-Targets/page3

I can corroborate that. When you get a bad enough intercranial injury (and having a bullet tunnel its way through your skull definitely counts) you can more or less bet the farm on them being instantaneously rendered unconscious, usually with some degree of posturing, and close to a zero percent chance of them regaining voluntary control over their body in the near future (and likely the long term as well).

Assuming that their vitals either are stable or can be made stable in a timely fashion, they usually end up hanging out in the neuro ICU for an extended period of time while they evaluate to see if they are brain dead (aka organ donation waiting to happen) or minimally conscious (can make basic noises and grunts, maybe can quasi breathe on their own, likely to be a ward of the state or in a SNF for the rest of their lives). Not a good picture.