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Blood squirt (blood spurt, blood spray, blood gush, or blood jet) is the effect when an artery, a blood vessel in the human body (or other organism's body), is cut. Blood pressure causes the blood to bleed out at a rapid, intermittent rate, in a spray, squirt, gush or jet, coinciding with the beating of the heart, rather than the slower, but steady flow of venous bleeding. Also known as arterial bleeding, arterial spurting, or arterial gushing, the amount of blood loss can be copious, occur very rapidly,[1] and can lead to death.
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Can the body repair a severed artery?
no, a severed artery but be repaired immediately. Depending on the artery you could exsanguinate in as little as seconds or up to several minutes.
What vein or artery causes people to bleed to death?
Any severed vein or artery can cause you to bleed to death
How do you control fermoral severed artery?
Simple answer: Apply firm, direct pressure directly above the severed site. It will be extremely painful to the one with the injury. Because the femoral artery is among the larger blood vessels in the body, bleed-out will be quick. As with any arterial bleed, if the bleeding is not quickly controlled, certain death is almost inevitable.
If an accident victim had a severed left subclavian artery which pulse neck or wrist would be most affected?
The left subclavian artery doesn't feed the carotid (neck pulse) so your answer would be the wrist.
How long can you live with a severed artery?
It depends on which artery. If your femoral artery is severed, you have minutes to live without immediate medical attention. Same for the Carotid artery in your neck, or the jugular vein in your neck. If the aorta artery feeding your heart goes, same thing. I would say the smaller the artery, the longer you may have to live before you bleed out. The biggest life threat as far as arterial bleeds is the aorta. If any part of the aorta ruptures, a surgeon couldn't save you if he already had you cut open on the table. Essentially, if the aorta ruptures, it will only take about 3 beats of the heart to bleed out. The further away from the heart you get, the slower the bleed will be, but any compromised artery is potentially life threatening. The femoral artery in the thigh (the femur is the thigh bone, hence the name fermoral) is another big bleeder. The carotid is the second biggest life threat if it's compromised. So basically, if the aorta ruptures, 3 heart beats. If the carotid ruptures, perhaps 2 minutes. If the femoral is severed, perhaps 5 minutes. The difference is that the carotid and the femoral arteries can be controlled with proper treatment. The aorta is untreatable once it's compromised.
