Trump avoids fatal wound, but even if he had avoided it by a little, his survival would not have been guaranteed

2024-07-15 03:21:09

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Former US President Donald Trump, who was shot during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on the 13th (local time), fortunately avoided fatal injury when the bullet hit his right ear. In the medical community, there is talk that “if it had hit just a few centimeters to the side, it would have been difficult to guarantee survival.”

Former President Trump was shot above his ear from his right side, and this area is made of elastic cartilage. The subcutaneous tissue and thin skin cover the cartilage, but since it is not a place where major blood vessels pass, the injury to this area is not life-threatening. Professor Lee Kyung-won of the Emergency Medicine Department at Yongin Severance Hospital said, “Emergency surgery or a reconstruction process (depending on the extent of the damage) may be necessary, but it is not a life-threatening area.”

However, if the bullet had hit just a few centimeters to the side, it could have been fatal. Former President Trump turned his head toward the screen in the campaign hall while asking the audience to look at the chart right before the shooting. If he had been looking straight ahead, he could have been hit in the temple between his right ear and eye. The professor said, “The temple is the part where the bone is the thinnest in the head, so it is fatal.” Vanessa Asher, a witness interviewed by NBC, said that Trump turned his head just barely and that if he had not looked at the chart, “the bullet would have hit him in the head.”

In addition to the temples, the head and neck are all areas where survival is difficult to guarantee when shot. Professor Cho Kwang-wook of the Catholic University College of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery said, “The cerebellum and medulla oblongata are located on the side of the head, and the brain stem is located behind the nose, which is fatal,” and “If the head or neck had been hit, survival would not have been guaranteed.”

Reporter Park Seong-min [email protected]

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2024-07-15 03:21:09