In Pulp Fiction, they take a syringe of adrenalin & strike it through the breastplate with immediate effect. My main question, assuming this has some basis in fact, is that the needle, solidly held by bone and presumably puncturing a ventricle, would be moved against by the heart causing a tear which would surely kill you. Even if it doesn’t, if muscle is so tough the heart moves around the needle, I’m still concerned about the needle hole. That’s before we get to the whole adrenalin thing. Positioning. Length of needle. Technique & needle breakages. Immediate effect. So yeah, go for it, put my mind at rest 🙂
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It’s a movie. It’s fiction. It has no basis in reality. There is no treatment in modern medicine that requires a doctor to stick a needle into your heart.
Edit for clarity because apparently people need it. Intracardiac injections are a thing. Jamming a needle into a person’s heart through the sternum *as depicted in Pulp Fiction because* ***that’s what OP is asking about*** is NOT a thing.
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