So if a character were to get stabbed in the neck with a large piece of broken glass could she survive it? It happens in a well equipped medical facility so she'd have care almost immediately. If she could survive what would treatment and recovery look like?
Stab wounds in the neck are tricky. Sometimes they’re pretty instantly lethal, especially if the carotid arteries are involved. Sometimes even people who are actively trying to die won’t succeed–I’ve had a patient who actively tried to cut his own throat, and cut through the muscles at the front of the neck without endangering his life.
Stab wounds to the back, lateral parts of the neck would be very survivable, though, because there’s mostly just muscle and bone. The trapezius, and sternocleidomastoid (strap) muscles are big, and thick, and protective, and the spine itself is pretty resistant to stab wounds, especially lateral ones.
If you want something life threatening, but survivable, consider a stab directly to the front of the neck, right into the trachea (windpipe). It would cause a lot of bleeding and sputtering of blood, and gasping, but any good ER doc could turn the sound into a tracheostomy and save the patient.
In a medical facility, a stab to the carotids MIGHT be survivable, but they bleed so fast it would take A LOT of quick work: pressure, sutures, probably blood transfusions.
So to sum up: back lateral neck is meaty and survivable, trachea stab is dramatic and survivable, carotids are VERY unlikely to be survivable but it is possible.
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