Poor guy - his hands looked pretty bad.

I thought he got nailed by a croc or something by the looks of the preview last week.

Man was he ever high getting on that copter - I'd love to get my hands on one of those blue fun kazoos he was sucking on. :-)

They must have given him a little morphine because he was gone.

Good thing he had the sense left to submerge in the cool(ish) water, because it looked like no one else had any clue what to do with him. I counted about 20 minutes in the television cut of the program from initial burn to evac... That's pretty poor if you ask me. As a WFR trainee, I was screamin' in my head "get that guy an M.D. NOW!"

IMHO he should have been submerged up to his nostrils until EMT showed up and wrapped him. At least Elisabeth was dousing his face w/water near the end... She's a cutie, too! ;) I hope Mike is okay, he was coo.


And, yeah, the producers definitely played up the disaster with all the clips of crocs jumping in the water.

Sad to see Mike go (and admit that I watch Survivor,)


B

With the merger now, the strong guys will get booted first. Jerri will probably end up in the final 3.

Burns are prone to infection. Sure, it should have been wrapped w/ wet clothes or something, but how about some clean water?

That looked pretty awful.

Warren

(please allow me to pontificate as if this were a real wilderness environment and not a heavily monitored set) In such an environment, cooling the burn is the absolute #1 priority. When someone falls in a fire or is exposed to a similar source of great heat, the skin tissue is heated so deeply and so much that even after the source of heat is removed, the skin can continue to damage itself long after. This is the reason that you should get cool water on any burn as soon as possible. Certainly clean water is preferable if it is available, but any water is better than none. Judging by the many layers of skin that were already falling off, we're probably talking about a full thickness burn (3rd degree) in which case the need for cooling was immense. A little known fact about burns is that all burns are sterile for the first 24-48 hours. It's only after the healing process begins in earnest that bacteria get trapped inside under the scabs and begin to cause infections. Given the circumstances (i.e. EMT team on standby) and knowing that evac was an imminent possibility, my assessment would have been to put cooling the wounds at priority A#1 and let the M.D.s deal with infection management at a proper health care facility. I'm no doctor, but this *is* the sort of thing they train you for in Wilderness First Responder.

But, you are absolutely right. Having a burn management kit w/ample clean water stashed off camera and a "use only in emergencies" contingency would have been a responsible thing for the producers to do. As far as wet clothes, I honestly thought the burn looked too severe for that to be an effective means of heat management, but I wasn't there so I could be absolutely off the mark there... Just playing armchair EMT, I guess! ;)

Hoping I never have to use the stuff I talk about,

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