Using the 1997 film Face/Off we’ll look at the reality of face transplantation.

Fischer, S., Kueckelhaus, M., Pauzenberger, R., Bueno, E. M., & Pomahac, B. (2014). Functional Outcomes of Face Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation, 15(1), 220-233. doi:10.1111/ajt.12956

Lantieri, L. A. (2011). Face Transplant: Learning from the Past, Facing the Future. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 155(1), 23-28.

Lantieri, L., Hivelin, M., Audard, V., Benjoar, M. D., Meningaud, J. P., Bellivier, F., . . . Grimbert, P. (2011). Feasibility, Reproducibility, Risks and Benefits of Face Transplantation: A Prospective Study of Outcomes. American Journal of Transplantation, 11(2), 367-378. doi:10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03406.x

Siemionow, M. (2016). The miracle of face transplantation after 10 years. British Medical Bulletin,120(1), 5-14. doi:10.1093/bmb/ldw045

This episode uses the character of Marion Ravenwood from the film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark to talk about alcohol and drinking myths.

Baraona, E., Abittan, C. S., Dohmen, K., Moretti, M., Pozzato, G., Chayes, Z. W., . . . Lieber, C. S. (2001). Gender Differences in Pharmacokinetics of Alcohol. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 25(4), 502-507. doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2001.tb02242.x

Deluca, Lorraine. “Alcohol Tolerance and Its Significance in Driving.” Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1985, pp. 1–23., doi:10.1080/00085030.1985.10757378.

Jones, A. W., Ph. D., Jonsson, K., MD, Ph.D., & Neri, A., MD. (1991). Peak Blood-Ethanol Concentration and the Time of its Occurance After Rapid Drinking on an Empty Stomach. Journal of Forensic Science, 36(2), 376-385.

Lund, A. (1979). The Rate of Disappearance of Blood Alcohol in Drunken Drivers. Blutalkohol, 16, 395-398.

Posey, D., & Mozayani, A. (2007). The Estimation of Blood alcohol Concentration: Widmark Revisited. Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 3(1), 33-39.

Rogers, A. (2015). Proof: The science of booze. Boston: Mariner Books.

Shajani, N. K., & Dinn, H. M. (1985). Blood Alchohol Concentrations Reached in Human Subjects after Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages in a Social Setting. Canadian Society of Forensic Science, 18(1), 38-47.

Vogel-Sprott, Muriel. “Is Behavioral Tolerance Learned?” Alcohol Health & Research World, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 161–168.

Watkins, R. L., BS, & Adler, E. V., BS, DABFT. (1993). The Effect of Food on Alcohol Absorption and Elimination Patterns. Journal of Forensic Science, 38(2), 285-291.

We use the truly terrible Star Wars episode III: Revenge of the Sith to explore whether or not it’s possible to die of a broken heart.

This week we’re going to use the Christmas classic, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York to talk about concussions.

This week we look at the injuries caused by explosions, and specifically the injuries NOT received by the most annoying tech guy ever in the 2002 action film xXx.

Depalma, R. G., MD, Burris, D. G., MD, Champion, H. R., FRCS, & Hodgson, M. J., MD, MPH. (2005). Blast Injuries. New England Journal of Medicine,1335-1342. doi:10.1056/NEJMra042083

Eskridge, S. L., Macera, C. A., Galarneau, M. R., Holbrook, T. L., Woodruff, S. I., Macgregor, A. J., . . . Shaffer, R. A. (2012). Injuries from combat explosions in Iraq: Injury type, location, and severity. Injury, 43(10), 1678-1682. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2012.05.027

Goh, S. H. (2009). Bomb blast mass casualty incidents: initial triage and management of injuries. Singapore Medical Journal, 50(1), 101-106.

Kang, D. G., MD, Lehman, R. A., MD, & Carragee, E. J., MD. (2012). Wartime spine injuries: understanding the improvised explosive device and biophysics of blast trauma. The Spine Journal, 12(9), 849-857. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2011.11.014

Lemonick, D. M., MD, FAAEP, FACEP. (2011). Bombings and Blast Injuries: A Primer for Physicians. American Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(3), 134-140.

Singh, A. K., Goralnick, E., Velmahos, G., Biddinger, P. D., Gates, J., & Sodickson, A. (2014). Radiologic Features of Injuries From the Boston Marathon Bombing at Three Hospitals. American Journal of Roentgenology,203(2), 235-239. doi:10.2214/ajr.14.12549

Wolf, S. J., Bebarta, V. S., Bonnett, C. J., Pons, P. T., & Cantrill, S. V. (2009). Blast Injuries. Lancet, 374, 405-415.

Today I check myself before I wreck myself and talk about something I missed back in episode 3 when I talked about CPR and defibrillation myths in movies using the film Flatliners.

Nehme, Z., Andrew, E., Bernard, S. A., & Smith, K. (2013). Treatment of monitored out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia utilising the precordial thump. Resuscitation, 84(12), 1691-1696. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.08.011

Using the movie Hot Fuzz we’ll look at what happens to someone if they are shot while wearing a bulletproof vest.

Hot Fuzz (8/10) Movie CLIP - Mindless Violence (2007) HD

Cannon, L. (2001). Behind Armour Blunt Trauma - an emerging problem. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 147(1), 87-96. doi:10.1136/jramc-147-01-09

Carr, D. J., Horsfall, I., & Malbon, C. (2013). Is behind armour blunt trauma a real threat to users of body armour? A systematic review. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 162(1), 8-11. doi:10.1136/jramc-2013-000161

Hanlon, E., PhD, & Gillich, P., MS. (2012). Origin of the 44-mm Behind-Armor Blunt Trauma Standard. Military Medicine, 177(3), 333-339. doi:10.7205/milmed-d-11-00303

Luo, S., Xu, C., Chen, A., & Zhang, X. (2016). Experimental investigation of the response of gelatine behind the soft body armor. Forensic Science International, 266, 8-13. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.04.019

Wen, Y., Xu, C., Wang, S., & Batra, R. (2015). Analysis of behind the armor ballistic trauma. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 45, 11-21. doi:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2015.01.010

Wilhelm, M., & Bir, C. (2008). Injuries to law enforcement officers: The backface signature injury. Forensic Science International, 174(1), 6-11. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.02.028

The 2002 zombie film 28 Days Later shows the effects of a plague that wipes out almost all life in england. But, how does this compare to the way diseases spread in the real world?

In this episode the 1990 Horror film “Flatliners” serves as a perfect example of all the ways Hollywood misrepresents CPR and defibrillation and their use as lifesaving techniques.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1405796#t=article

This week we’ll use data on thoracic trauma and ectopic pregnancy to talk about whether Kane from the 1979 movie Alien would have survived his infamous encounter with the Chestburster.

Charshafian, S., MD, Woltman, N. M., MD, EMT-T, & Moy, H. P., MD. (2017).

Godoy, J. P., Cury, F., Baitello, A., Echeverria, R., Espada, P., & De Godoy, J. M. (2009).

Golden, P. A. (2000). Thoracic Trauma. Orthopaedic Nursing, 19(5), 37-47.

Hinkle, J. L., Cheever, K. H. (11/2013). Hinkle & Cheever: Brunner & Suddarth's

Snyder, S. R., BS, NREMT-P, Kivlehan, S. M., MD, MPH, NREMT-P, & Collopy, K. T., BA,

Ustaalioglu, R., Yildirim, M., Cosgun, H., Dogusoy, I., Imamoglu, O., Yasaroglu, M., . . .

Yamamoto, L., MBA/HCA, BSN, RN, PHN, Schroeder, C., ADN, RN, Beliveau, C., ADN,