Comments on: If your finger falls off, grab it before the dog gets it! https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/ Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:33:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: NP https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523003 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:33:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523003 Reminds me a scene from Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523002 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:14:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523002 The natives treated us kindly and invited us to dine on yams and clams and human hands and vintage coconut wine …

Sorry, “Poor Uncle Harry” just seemed appropriate at the time.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523001 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:10:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523001 Milk? That would have been one order of magnitude more difficult to find than ice! I suppose Nido would have worked, though.

]]> By: Monado https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523000 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:00:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-523000 Ice or cold milk. Apparently milk is good because it’s a buffering solution and isotonically more similar to blood and so doesn’t suck out the blood plasma.

I knew a woman who had had her finger cut off when someone accidentally slammed a door on it. She and her friends put it into a baggie, with ice, and went to the hospital. Surgeons re-attached the finger. It was about 1 cm shorter than the corresponding finger on the other hand, but was functional. You’d never notice unless she told you.

]]> By: Ahmed https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-522999 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:21:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-522999 There is a simple version that has a low but non zero success rate that involves basically sewing the finger back on. Putting in ice was the trick.

]]> By: jdhuey https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-522998 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:18:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/10/if-your-finger-falls-off-grab/#comment-522998 Obviously, the staff at the clinic did not have capability of sewing the finger back on but what would have been required for them to have had the capability?

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