Good evening fellow honcos! I just finished catching up on the 1000+ comments on the fake CNN video thread. Lots of excellent observations there. I’ve also just video screen-captured and reviewed the high-resolution version of the Channel 4 video that Charles posted, so can I add a few more thoughts, even though this train has pretty much left the station by now?

1. I agree with the observation, made by several people, that a code on an exsanguinating trauma patient should include massive amounts of fluid, infused by as many big IV lines as possible. But I’m not sure we can say that wasn’t happening. There’s an IV pole on the patient’s left, with two bags hanging on it. The patient appears to have a left antecubital IV. Someone also would have put in a central line, if this were a real code, but there’s a tube that could conceivably be a central line heading under the patient’s heavy blanket. Hey, wait a second…

2. Blanket? Why the hell is there a heavy blanket on the patient? You don’t put a blanket on a patient during a code. And if there’s one there, the first thing you do is take it off, particularly if it’s a trauma patient. It’s staring us right in the face, but, besides the absurdly unrealistic chest compressions and the lack of any ventilation for the patient, this might be the most egregiously faked part of the whole video.

3. There’s no defibrillator anywhere near the patient. Nobody would run a code without a defibrillator.

I’ll leave it at that. Thanks to everyone for checking out the video carefully, and special thanks to Kilgore Trout for some excellent sleuthing in figuring out that the camera operator ran two websites for Hamas.