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Doctor Diagnoses Unreal Racing Crashes

there are some mean crashes in NASCAR F1 Indie and we're going to watch some of the meanest ones but know that everyone survives in the clips that we're about to watch and we're going to talk about the medical situations in each of these scenarios also huge thanks to ship station for sponsoring this video distance ahead we got Formula 1 action honestly the surviving F1 series is fire if you haven't watched it yet a oh oh oh oh where would his body be looks like it would be split in pieces and the fact that there's a fire I mean he's in a fireproof suit but how long can that help for oh there he is he's trying to get out oh my God you got to spray him see the problem with spraying down directly the person is it's good and bad at the same time good in that you're dousing the flame but the reason you point the fire extinguisher at the base of the flame is to literally suffocate the flame and when you're shooting it at a person face you're essentially suffocating the person as well see the dangerous part would be if he was knocked unconscious cuz then he wouldn't be able to climb out of the car look you could see that the the medical delegate is trying so hard to get near him but the Flames must be so hot oh he must have burned his hand burns to the hand are so bad because of the contractures that can form that the skin essentially starts becoming flexed and you're going to need multiple surgeries usually and occupational therapy shout out to my occupational therapist out there to help work that hand open and keep its strength or recover its strength wow he's walking away from this not even walking my guy is running away from it not only is he survived going through a barrier uh 160 mph 160 m an hour and how is he not concussed going from 160 mph to zero so quickly the danger in crashes is going from a high speed to a zero speed because all of that inertia carries your organs forward even the brain the brain sits in a soup so it starts hitting the front of your scalp when you come to an abrupt stop and I know they have neck stabilizing devices in the car but whoo insisting no no no no we'll we'll get the ambulance here but he wanted to demonstrate that he was okay he got a message to everyone his wife and family in particular that okay beautiful message medically I hate it adrenaline in moments like this is rushing so fast that you might not have any idea what's going on in your body you might be bleeding internally you might be bleeding internally into your skull having a stroke so many things could be going wrong right now and just to symbolize that you're great and strong you do the extra walk unnecessary actually it's the same reason in boxing once there's a knockout they don't have people just usually stand up right away after the match ends they first bring them to a stool they have them calm down in the stool and they evaluate what's going on there and have the doctor speak with them then they have them stand up and they redo it again and there's reasons for this progression because we want to to make sure that the body and mind are both safe looks like he only suffered minor burns to the back of his hands a sprain left ankle and was discharged from the hospital soon after that's crazy that that's all that happened I mean I sprayed my right ankle walking to the refrigerator the other day on Bear's toy and this guy's surviving 160 mph wreck outside making a move okay Indie for those of you who don't know I was with Mario and Drey in an indie car did a lap how about you Canada's R are they going Wheels they're going to touch Wheels oh they touch wheels on a turn that's awful oh my God that's Robert wi Robert Wick they got everybody oh my God the spin ridic The Strain and force a spin like that puts on your neck I can't even begin to understand because when I took those turns with andred I felt it in my neck like my whole head being pushed to one side when you're spinning like that constantly changing direction the amount of Jes is in incredible nothing like even my F-16 experience violent crash Pocono Raceway which is where I did mine by the way confirmed Thursday night that he is paralyzed from the chest down no way so if chest down likely that means that there was some kind of spinal cord injury and obviously from a spin like that as I was saying you're putting so much torque on the spinal cord that it's no surprise that there was severe damage Ryan Newman off turn four for the final time bling to the outside fish oh Newman in a shower of Sparks on his God the amount of Sparks ran Newman comes across the line fourth Newman got turned Jesus went up in the air as he came down was hit by another car and launched Skyward you know in traditional car accidents uh like on the highway they have this device called the jaws of life to actually cut through uh the doors and other mechanical obstacles that might be in the way to free passengers I wonder how they do it here tries to go to the outside then the inside they Lo lock bumpers and turn oh my my God he hit the side there really hard again a lot of pressure on the neck being upset like this is okay again there's no rapid stop where you have that inertia of the organs potentially experiencing a high gForce so this sliding effect is actually life-saving he would later hold an interview with today on March 11th where he discussed a crash revealing he was knocked out and sustained a bruised brain bruised brain essentially he had a concussion probably a counter coup injury from getting hit on one side and remember when the brain hits one side it then automatically bounces to the other side cuz it sits in that soup it's called a counter coup injury but glad to know that he's alive let's take a minute and talk about ship station the leading web-based order management and shipping software it's designed to make retailers lives Easier by making processing fulfilling and shipping e-commerce orders more more efficient I know how difficult it 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for a free 60-day trial that's right shipstation.com Dr Mike start today and get set up before the biggest shipping season of the year they come through the trioval Checker is waving Ernie wins and Rusty SP get oh he's flying he's flying rolling rolling okay if I'm trying to gauge the risk of an accident this is probably one of the safest ones we've seen so far not to downplay the injuries that happen here but because again the car kept rolling that looks terrifying but usually creates the safest stop for the car because because again it's that sudden stop and the speed of that stop the deceleration that causes the most damage and is the most lethal yeah he's moving I see him moving around in the car again usually what results from this is neck injuries concussions from the rolling around maybe if your hand gets caught in something that's why I think Formula 1 drivers and I don't know about other racing sports are taught to take their hands immediately off the wheel on an accident thankfully Wallace simply lucky to be alive given the severity of the incident didn't suffer any severe injuries he did however suffer some minor ones and was forced to wear a cast on his hand for the next few races his accident inspired the introduction of roof flaps to NASCAR Vehicles which work to reduce flipping when cars go Airborne I mean a cast with a a crash of that severity is a pretty good thing to get away with but you can see Mike moving inside the car all the Airborne ones are so bad oh my God oh my God see some of the most dangerous Parts here are when the car that is Airborne and its Wheels make contact with the other driver from their head which is unprotected and I know in Formula 1 they started creating some sort of protection for them I don't know if this was instituted at the time of this race here in turn three and four quite a few years ago and the car is up into the fence which is almost reminiscent of Kenny bra accident at Texas quite a few years ago guys very very lucky yeah so he went body into the fence which again takes a major toll on your spinal cord cuz imagine you're sitting and your spinal cord ex experiencing is all those compressive forces puts pressure on your discs I wouldn't be surprised if there's a disc herniation involved here bulging disc maybe even a disc rupture from the severity of that injury Conway had surgery for multiple fractures in his lower left leg and had been diagnosed with a compression fracture in his back that's interesting because I was talking about disc compression but the vertebrae which are the actual bony bodies in between the discs can fracture as well must have been a lot of damage to his spine but uh definitely can recover with surgery from that wao look out we got trouble this is going to hurt oh oh oh oh my God for the people in the stands and for the car oh my God oh my God multiple hits the whole race is over so Jeffrey is alert at least and conscious and able to move I don't know about you guys but I'm breathing a little bit better right now me too I mean I'm not because you're still not out of danger until you're in the hospital even in the hospital when we have a patient in one area and we need to transfer them whether it's from a regular inpatient floor unit to the ICU or from the ER to the patient room that Transportation can only happen when the patient's stable and things go wrong during that transportation that you need to be present and ready to activate a code blue a rapid response and treat the patient right then and there he suffered a concussion faceal laceration multiple bruises right wrist fracture and a small fracture to a vertebrae and is an intensive care unit in serious but stable condition wow I would say that it's probably a very severe concussion uh when you're being tossed around at that rate of speed I mean that that's incredible just as I woke out in infirmary they said Lee just went over turn three and four wall oh this looks like something from the scene of a car game called karmageddon I don't know if you guys remember that game or Twisted Metal Twisted Metal for sure yeah I think I also couldn't afford the real game but I got my hands on a demo disc and I just played the demo over over and over went in to talk to him he was about half conscious and I just tore all the pieces cut up everywhere ribs broke punctured lung just his leg all just all busted off just hanging there that's the biggest danger that I always tell you guys about whenever there's a rib fracture about puncturing your lung and developing a pneumothorax also less talked about but equally dangerous is if that rib fractures in an area where it Nicks your aorta you have massive internal bleeding that's a deadly deadly injury Lee Petty's car was destroyed and then they took his broken apparently lifeless body to the hospital it was some time before he could have broken bones fixed they waited to see if he would stabilize as he lay in a coma he spent 4 months in the hospital Petty did return to racing but he was never quite as competitive again wow oh throwback okay let's see what happen oh oh oh wow okay those are the ones I'm talking about where you're going high rate of speed and then you come to an instant stop that's where you lose your life there is Michael walri now standing up climbing out from around that SED mangled mass of Sheet Metal He's just walking Pontiac Grand Prix just a few moments ago yeah B I think I'm all right uh got some contusions and a little bit of confusion but uh that's probably not too unusual That's Not Unusual that is unusual when we decide whether or not to scan someone's head for an intracranial bleed it's based off of certain signs and symptoms but also the mechanism of injury and going 100 mph or whatever that was to zero is most definitely a high-speed accident warranting a full body cat SC I think I'm all right and uh we'll go home get a good night's rest tonight no you don't go home you go straight to the hospital I hope he went to the hospital you know my seat stayed uh secured in the frame rail in in the only frame rail really that stayed as a part of the back of the car this part came went I think the only thing that really saved him here was that he hit the outside of his car not his own side if it was the driver's side that had that impact it would have been a very different outcome Alonzo let's go this is McLaren days not Ferrari days oh oh there goes his front tire oh it's so hard to make out what just happened is he okay the whole axle look like it went he walked away like that that's him wait is that estabon Gutierrez that's my friend look at all these pictures of me and him you see the sky then you see the ground you see the sky and you know exactly where you are and you keep moving moving you want to stop then the car stop I saw a little space to go out and I said I go out quickly and my mom will watch TV so I want to be out quite and say that I'm okay W I feel fine physically but everything hurts a little because you move around so much at those speeds the KN is what bothers me most is it hit the steering column but I feel very lucky very lucky everything is going to hurt for a while and honestly you should be under observation because if you're even having a small bleed internally you want to make sure that you're able to act quickly so I have a funny story with estan guer we went to a family dinner I took him on my Audi TTS and I was going to drop him off at his place and then go home and I'm with a Formula 1 driver I'm going to drive and try and look cool and because of that I turned into the Holland Tunnel in the city and I didn't mean to do that so I was like oh my God I turned into the wrong thing so I was like let me just back up real quick cuz it's not I'm not that far in and as as soon as I started backing up you see a cop walk out onto the street and go excuse me sir come on come on and had me pull up checked my windows for tints started writing me tickets I was like officer I'm so sorry I made this mistake I'm a physician this is a Formula 1 driver he's like I couldn't care less here's your tint ticket but yeah that that's that goes to say that even if you have a Formula One driver in your passenger seat don't try and show off because things will go wrong but the rest of the field is oh no oh no this is going to be the worst one isn't it this looks like a skit the only thing that I'll say is this is pretty low speed so I guess that's a little bit safer but these vehicles weren't as safe so that's not necessarily true you know what's really scary when you watch some uh of those videos when there is a blizzard and there's low visibility and then there's an accident and another accident and all of a sudden there's cars just sliding into other cars and then people come out to see what's going on and they're getting trapped never exit your vehicle if you're in one of those situations call for help stay in your vehicle because you don't know what's coming behind you that's the scary part and if you do exit run away like don't stay on on the highway I mentioned earlier that I flew an F-16 check out that video right here I'm doing barrel rolls upside down twisties 9gs over 9gs seriously click here to watch that and don't forget to visit chip.com drmike to begin your 60-day free trial as always stay happy and healthy [Music]

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