4 Potentially Life Saving Tips to Survive a Crowd Surge

ER physician Dr. J. Mack Slaughter joins The Doctors to share what happens to the human body during a crowd surge, a crowd crush and the weight of the people end up crushing your chest, and a crowd collapse. Dr. Slaughter shares 4 lifesaving tips to survive this panic-filled situation.
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[@Evergreen98290]

How to Survive a Stampede:
Tip 1. Get your arms up, elbows in front of your chest. Gives your chest room to expand while people push and shove preventing asphyxiation.
Tip 2. Go with the flow. Fighting the crowd will exhaust you, save your energy.
Tip 3. Stay up. Utilize your center of gravity to do so. Once you fall down it is nearly impossible to get back up.
Tip 4. Avoid hard surfaces, unless they are scaleable. You can become crushed against barriers and walls by the crowd.
RIP to the victims in Seoul.

[@mikeshoults4155]

Tip 1,
Don't join it!

[@RubeusRuby]

​@@mikeshoults4155some people get pushed in regardless. So many factors, so people get swept away, physically floating you off the ground if you're small enough. Listen to RottenMangos video on the recent surge in Korea just months ago.

[@piiinkDeluxe]

the tightest crowd I've been in was at a concert. and i did all this by instinct. except i still fell down, and it took seconds between me seeing black, accepting the end, people forming a barrier and someone to pull me back up.

[@matvei15]

What concert was it?

[@geessaess1707]

A firefighter who also had expertise in stampede situations said that you should also look for ways to go vertically up, climb a tree or a car.

[@bravo_01]

Imagine how many people could have survived in S Korea if they knew those tips

[@شیرنرسَماءاعراف]

L south Koreans

[@Nezumi99]

literally nobody who died cuz they were trapped between two walls there was NOWHERE to go plus it wasn't controlled event

[@flippinnngiraffe808]

@@Nezumi99 if you fall, curl up into a ball with your hand over your head. That way, there is less pressure on you chest and you can breathe better

[@buenasondas1147]

Basically still none of them. These kind of videos provide an illusion of control to ease people's anxiety. But the truth is if you're getting pushed down a steep slope in an alley with thousands of people that should have hundreds, and crushed by the weight of thousands of people behind you, and you're a 120 pound woman, you're going to die if the conditions are right regardless of how fancy your arm ergonomics are.

[@user-yj5js7ux8j]

@@buenasondas1147 the thing, don't go to crazy place like that

[@deepakchaini3534]

this kind of tips should be demonstrated before crowded programs .

[@shawnyepes2389]

Watching this after the tragedy in South Korea. Such a scary and horrific experience. Praying for those who lost their life

[@jojothenoobisjames]

That’s why it’s important to be physically stronger. Everyone who died in the crowd crush at Korea was weak physically

[@superocker06]

@@jojothenoobisjames exactly bro, personally i couldn't ever see myself dieing in one unless majority of people were 250+lbs, even then just climb on top of them, i mean hell i prefer my safety over theirs, they dont like it they can join me

[@anincognito]

Zeroth law of survival: avoid all crowded places, always check the exit point before you enter.

[@xxovereyexx5019]

Pray for Itaewon 🙏🏾

[@bludiamond1851]

Great, will come in handy @ the Carnival 4someone🙏🏾

[@ForeverSweetx3]

How about don't go towards the crowds

[@tubeyou89119]

That's #1 tip of "how to avoid being killed by a crowd". He is answering "how to survive" meaning you are already in the crowd.

[@misssissivoss]

The problem is, that you don't realise the danger until it's to late.

[@user-yj5js7ux8j]

@@misssissivoss it happens a lot of time to realise