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Would anyone with medical knowlege care to explain what exactly happens when your femoral artery gets severed and more importantly, what the doctors could do to save him.
Seems like it would be hard to reattach such a major artery.
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You bleed and bleed. I know that sounds trite, but that's really the long and short of the problem. Reattaching is
relatively simple (vascular surgeons do way, way more complicated stuff daily), but the blood loss is so ridiculous that you really have to get to an OR fast. Sadly, quicker medical attention would have most likely saved him. He was most likely screwed by the time the cops or medics showed up. You just have to stop massive bleeding like that or you're dead in a matter of minutes.
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He probably didn't get his femoral artery severed, he'd probably have died right away. The problem with trauma in the groin is that the groin contains some of the most complicated vascular systems in the body. What most likely happened is that the doctors missed a bleed somewhere during surgery, but this is pretty common with trauma in the groin (which is way more common in car accidents). The trauma (blood and other material) makes it almost impossible to repair all the damage and its unfortunate that Taylor didn't pull through.