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Do Multiple Would Wounds Reduce The Flow To Blood?
Would a stab wound to the heart reduce the blood flow from other subsequent wounds in the case of a multiple stabbing? I am assuming that the heart would stop pumping blood if severely penetrated which would result in less blood from the other wounds. My reason for the question is that I am writing a crime novel where I want to establish that the victim was first stabbed in the back (penetrating the heart) and that other stabbings to the chest and stomach were administered when the victim was already either dead or dying to fake a random frenzied killing.
Wed, 6 Aug 2014
hi there, must be an interesting novel. Moving on to your question, yes if the heart has been stabbed first and penerated first then it will stop pumping blood and so there will be less or no blood lost from the subsequent stabs or wounds in the other parts of the body. Happy writing
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If multiple stab penetrating wound to heart leads to bleeding from heart which when causes cardiac tamponade if not treated patient may collapse and heart may stop working severity depend upon site of heart multipole penetrating injury
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