[TxLnghrn]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

He's quite lucky in many ways. Often, when the femur is broken, the femoral artery is usually damaged due to its close proximity to the femur, and that can cause a person to die from internal bleeding in a very short time-frame.

Lucky yes, but actually death due to exsanguination from an isolated femur fracture is extremely rare. Transection of the femoral artery is a rare event and even if it were to be damaged, the bleeding will usually self-tamponade after about one liter of blood. The resulting compartment syndrome and tissue necrosis, however, is another story.

Michael