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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8779586" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Depends on what you mean by "carry on"; note this only applies short term, i.e. during one continuous exchange.  After the adrenaline has worn off all kinds of things come home to roost (including the shock they've managed to avoid setting in and various impairing levels of pain).  Its been some time since I saw it, but it involved modern exchanges between police and criminals primarily, and thus a lot of it was firearms injuries, but I remember distinctly some break-out sections on blunt impact and knife wounds (which were common enough there was a summary list).  Its also, as far as I know, not been repeated but then, it required the agency doing it (I want to say the American FBI but its been some years now) to do a fair amount of data trawling.   I do know I've seen some similar data from military sources, though I expect the weapon profiles involved were somewhat different (would have leaned into longarms and small scale fragmentation more than the police data did, and probably didn't deal with melee attacks to any real extent); in any case there was some consistency of conclusion.(There was also some similar data from trauma centers some years ago.)</blockquote>