Knocked unconcious on a pirate ship

[sunsalute]

Can I pick a medical brain about how you'd care for someone that was knocked unconcious with a blow to the head? If there's experience with how it feels and how to describe waking up, that would also be super amazing. I know it's super dangerous and requires a hospital visit but this is fic-land and historical and they're on a pirate ship so we're ignoring that small tidbit.

Setting: I'm not going to lie, this is pretty vague. Whatever Pirates of the Carribbean is, ish? On a ship belonging to a relatively well-respected naval officer who's just picked up someone with an 'or alive' bounty. As little crew as they can get away with.

The Knockening: poor Character is headbutted into unconciousness. They stay unconcious long enough to be moved to another ship.

The questions:
-how long can they stay unconcious before breaking suspension of disbelief
-how would someone used to dragging unconcious bodies around check up on Character as they wake up
-how does it feel to wake up after such a blow
-assuming no lasting damage, what temporary damage can Character expect?

Thank you so much!

Comments

[abracanabra]

From personal experience in being a dumb-ass, if they get a hard hit to the front of the head, one likely medium-term damage effect is raccoon eyes bruising and swelling that will take a couple of weeks to go down (but takes about 24 hours to fully develop). Painful and VERY noticeable.

Welfare check might include checking to see if the pupils dilate appropriately, if they match in size, if they remember what happened, if there are any squishy spots in the skull, if there's clear fluid or blood coming from the nose or ears.


Wakeup might be--hey, I'm awake! ...why does everything hurt and why are things sort of blurry? Why can't I remember what happened? (A few minutes to an hour of memory loss prior is likely.)