Dr. Thomas Coyne

Every time the heart beats, blood will spurt out.

And yes, you could lose a couple liters of blood within a couple minute window, a very small window of time.

During my early years of training, yeah, and especially in the trauma centers and hospital where you have, you know the injury is most likely fatal, but you're doing everything you can just to keep that patient alive.

And when you have an injury like this and you've lost so much blood, it's almost impossible to get in there and repair it in time to save the patient.

It's just, it's a horrible experience.

Yeah, sure.

So the carotid artery is the main artery that supplies blood to our brain.

So it travels within our neck along the lateral sides of our neck.

It's where you would feel your pulse if you

put your fingers on your neck, that's the carotid artery.

And it's one of the arteries that this certainly could have cut in that area of her neck, and it will pump a high volume of blood out of the body if cut.

The pupils being blown just likely indicates that she's lost normal neurologic function.

And as you can imagine, if those arteries are cut, the blood supply to her brain has been severed.

And so within probably less than a minute's time, her brain's not getting the oxygen or blood flow it needs.

And therefore, you know, her brain's not being responsive.

So her pupils are blown, her cranial nerves and her brainstem are not working like they should.

And those just simply really speak to her dire situation.

No, I mean, you can argue that maybe she went unconscious, you know, within a minute or just less, but she certainly would have felt that stab wound.

And you can see when she looked at her attacker, she certainly would have had that sudden rush of fear and panic before she passed out.

Yeah, unfortunately, gunshot wounds of the torso can take some time for a person to actually lose consciousness.