This Victorian Invention Saved Thousands In WW1 #Shorts

The incredible Thomas Splint changed the mortality rate of broken femurs on the battlefield from an 80% chance of dying to an 80% chance of surviving.

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[essamarram]

"Doc, what are my odds?"
"80%"
"Of?"
"We'll see"

[seesidesummerhouse]

Really nice of him to travel forward in time to explain this to us.

[falkor]

Ive broken my femur before, and it contracted like explained. Before the EMT's could get me out of the house, they put me on a stretcher, closed the door, tied me down, and pulled it back into place with a similar but modern version. Not too many pains quite like that one. but I survived.

[bobroberts]

Interesting fact about statistics. When tin hats were introduced by the British army in WW1 the number of head injuries recorded by field hospitals rocketed and some officers who had sneered at the idea of helmets seized on this as a sign of how useless they were. It did not take long, however, for it to be realised that most of these casualties would have previously been in the KIA ledger rather than wounded.

[Eurobeat_fan]

finally, a victorian invention that doesn't try and kill you

[rhysgoodman]

You know WW1 was hell when the life-saving equipment sounds like torture.

[spectrepar]

Traction splints actually drastically reduce pain. From like a 25/10 to a 11/10

[thacameraguy]

Traction splinting was an absolutely phenomenal medical innovation. Really cool to see early iterations of a traction splint!

[acidic]

The first seconds when seeing this vid, I thought it was a giant saw that was meant to amputate limbs with broken bones

[todorminchev]

Shout out to the cameraman traveling back in 1914 to record this

[blubberdust]

It also TREMENDOUSLY reduces pain bc of less bone grinding. Traction splints are amazing.

[lindenpeters]

Dude's dressed like he's about to announce that tomorrow we go "over the top"

[Turquoise-Official]

"you have an 80% chance of dying"
The music: 🎷🎷💃🕺

[noahthehoneyboy]

I’m an EMT and I use the modern version of this all the time. Honestly it hasn’t changed much

[ann_banan]

Honestly nothing more attractive to me than a well spoken well mannered handsome man on this earth

[loganio]

"What are my chances doc?"
"I don't know, have we invented bent metal bars yet?"

[skyty]

I've never imagined your leg muscles pulling your bones further beyond the initial break. Horrifying.

[njmedic]

I actually used these, 45 years ago. You've got it backward, the padded piece goes behind the leg, a cravat secures it over the front, another cravat for an ankle hitch, and a third cravat around the bottom with a windlass inserted to create the traction - a few more cravats between the top and bottom to add support to the leg.

[charuvikram]

It's called a Thomas Splint and is widely in use in emergency situations even today. An amazing invention.

[seanxx]

Amazing thing is that the Thomas splint still being used till this day