[CatDawg]

Here's my question, why wouldn't they just saw the pipe in half in between them? Then they don't have to remove either of them.

They would have had to move at least one of them a few inches in order to cut the pipe in between them. When your dealing with a severed aorta its almost if ot impossible to do anything to the patient. If the pipe had the aorta pinched off not allowing bleeding then when you move them the few inches you open it up and they blend out in seconds. This was very realistic myself and batpuff have seen this first hand. We had a gentleman whom was ejected from his vehicle with it landing on top of him about just below his sternum. We had to use the jaws of life to get the car off him. The entire time leading up to do this the gentleman talked to us and didn't really seem to be in much pain. As soon as we picked the car up off him he coded. Since he coded you don't really do much of a survey of the patient but since he had been talking you go ahead and perform CPR. When we arrived at the hospital we found that he had a hole in his back the size of a baseball. The aorta had been severed but the car had it pinched off not allowing the blood to escape and keeping the heart full of blood to allow it to continue to pump to the other parts of the body. When the car was lifted the blood began to flow out the tire causing the blood pressure to drop and resulting in full cardiac arrest.

Sorry to run on but thought this might help you understand it a little better.