Power Girl #5: A Medical Review
Power Girl #5 “Space Girls Gone Wild”
Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, writers
Amanda Conner, penciler
Power Girl is caught in the middle of the explosion of a spaceship that crashed in a city park. The local police, firefighters, and EMTs rush in survey the damage, provide first aid, and move her out of the crater.
They’ve got her on oxygen and they’re using a backboard, so everything’s good right?
Not quite. They forgot to secure Power Girl’s head/neck and if there’s any damage to the cervical spine or cervical spinal cord, this could be a big problem (what sort of problem? Quadriplegia). The image above shows the danger perfectly. Look at the angle her head is at compared to the rest of her body.
Here’s an annotated version to make it even clearer:
I suspect the rescue personnel were a little distracted.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Insert obligatory airbag joke here.
October 5th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Yay! I got this one just by looking at the first panel.
You should make more medical picture quizzes, doc! I like them very much.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Huzzah for Boy Scout training on this one.
As a side note, two paramedics appear to be visibly distracted. I don’t think their eyes on the firefighter.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Scott, I agree 100 per…boobies…
October 6th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Yes, Power Girl has large breasts. Somehow this is an observation that never gets old, despite how often it is repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and…
October 6th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Perhaps she moved unconsciously and snapped the neck supports due to her super-strength? To Power Girl, any sort of restraint would mostly feel like tissue paper anyway.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
C-cups full of Justice!
Maybe it’s a drawing mistake. Like in Ultimate Iron Man, when Tony had half or right foot severed. And on the same page that part of his Left foot is seen.
On the other hand i doubt that workplace of drawing artist covered with pictures of medical items with description when and how to use it.
October 11th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Nice one. I am a firefighter myself and I can promise you that I would get distracted if I ever had to pull a woman like the out of fire ;)
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