Femoral artery bleed?
Possibly, but in a Level One TC, attendings would be looking for that, and ready to get in, or get back in to stop it. They probable see 10 GSWs a weekend.
Of course a complication can be, clamp the artery to save the Pt, but lose the leg in the process.
Who knows?
Prayers.
Depending on the angle of entry, a .223 round could get deep enough to hit the descending aortas at the small of the back.
Not a doctor.
The hyperventilating MSM has created this and need to be called out.
MedStar Washington Central Hospital— they see plenty of gunshots. A femoral bleed would not be hidden. Femoral arterial bleeds pretty evident, and surgically corrected.
What could be going on is if bone chips went into abdominal/gut and sepsis is happening. Temp spikes and blood bacterial count up. In the Civil War, such a hip strike by a much larger and slower minie ball mean shattered bone and death by sepsis.
Dr. Paul tended to him as he could- there are no details as to what that was or could do with ... nothing but their hands for pressure. He was on plasma in the video to the medevac helo, 4 minutes to the Level 3 Trauma center on their helo deck.
Prayers.