Comments on: Picture Quiz: Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #3

By: elad

elad — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:10:40 +0000

oh and I don’t think that doctor resting his elbow on the left side of Peter’s chest is going to help that collapsed left lung.

By: elad

elad — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:04:14 +0000

I’m not a doctor but:
Why are they looking at his stomache/pelvis area when his problems are in the chest?
and why don’t they try to stop or slow the bleeding when he already lost that much blood?

By: Cliff S.

Cliff S. — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:54:49 +0000

And hey – let’s not give him any IV fluids or anything. We’ll just sponge that blood up from off the floor and pour it back into his open wounds.

By: DrObvious

DrObvious — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:10:26 +0000

Um, why would it be so dark??? That one seems obvious.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:40:34 +0000

Wouldn’t some type of intubation and a chest tube be good, he may not get much oxygen with the collapsed lung but something there to get it to him is better than nothing.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:18:39 +0000

I’m not a medical professional, but there seem to be a lack of tubes and wires about. Where’s the anaesthesiologist getting his gas from? What is the screen with the squiggly lines to the right of his head supposed to be measuring?

Oh, and shouldn’t they clean up the giant bloodstain on the patient so that (a) it’s cleaner, and (b) they can tell if anything under the blood is wounded?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:23:42 +0000

Matthew, Good eyes, but in terms of your third point, I didn't include that on my list. I think they're describing a hemothorax (or a hemopneumothorax), where the lung collapses and the part of the chest where it had been fills with blood.

By: Dave Lartigue

Dave Lartigue — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:08:43 +0000

Judging from the trash on the floor, one of the doctors is working on his novel. DAMMIT STEVE THERE’S A PATIENT IN HERE!

By: Matthew Craig

Matthew Craig — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:53:28 +0000

the first comic book penciler to correctly draw eye protection on all the surgical personnel, a key OSHA requirement.

See, I used to be a molecular biologist. I worked with carcinogens, teratogens and radioactive material, and I ALWAYS wore eye protection. And it has always bothered me when the CSI axis don’t wear their goggles. Of course, it bothers me that they sit down to work and gsuck gas into their Eppendorfs, but there you go.

Anyway. I’m not medically trained, bu-ut…

1. Vena Cava – NOT AN ARTERY.
2. Would you really waste time doing extensive X-rays and CT scans of a patient who in that chronic a state? Wouldn’t you get him stabilised first?
3. The lung thing, right? You can’t fill a collapsed lung with fluid?
4. Also, having consulted Wiki, why aren’t they sorting out the intracranial bleed first?
5. Finally, because I’m really reaching here: isn’t the anaesthesiologist in danger of slipping and braining himself in all that blood?

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By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:43:37 +0000

Nor is touching the x-ray. I don’t think that person is actually “scrubbed in” — in fact, as far as I can tell, the person actually scrubbed in is the surgeon facing us.