Clinics often receive patients with fractures of varying severity. Someone breaks his legs, someone needs a cast to break his arm fracture . According to medical statistics, most injuries occur in which chest bones are damaged. After serious injuries, treatment for rib fractures requires surgical intervention.
What is dangerous fracture of the ribs
This injury can be obtained with severe injury, an unsuccessful fall, or in an accident. At the time of the fracture, you may feel severe pain. Gradually, it passes or becomes less noticeable. If the injury is not serious, then there will be no consequences. The bones will heal within three weeks, a maximum of a month, and no special treatment for a rib fracture will be required . However, with serious injury, a consequence can occur that will lead to death. It is especially important to know that pieces of bone tissue separated by a fracture can pierce a lung. A puncture will lead to internal bleeding (hemothorax) or the chest cavity will be filled with air (pneumothorax). In any situation, you should consult a doctor urgently.
How to independently determine a rib fracture
You can make an examination and make a diagnosis without the help of a doctor. To do this, you need to know the symptoms of fractures. First of all, pay attention to breathing, pulse and pain during movement. If during inhalation a person feels pain and discomfort, the heartbeat increases sharply, and the soreness does not disappear - he may fracture. Now you need to determine the location of the alleged injury. Usually, it swells, and when you click on the rib, the pain increases sharply. If these symptoms are found, consult your doctor for an examination. After it, treatment for fractures of the ribs is prescribed.
How to help an injured person
For closed fractures, if the victim can breathe on their own, a dressing should be applied. All available tools are suitable for her. For example, you can use a bandage, towel, t-shirt, or something else. The victim must take air into his lungs, and at this moment you will make him a tight bandage.
With open fractures, you can not move a person. The only way you can help is to call an ambulance. Arriving doctors will deliver the victim to the clinic, where he will be prescribed the appropriate treatment for fractures of the ribs. Having discovered an open fracture, do not try to help yourself. If you do not have a medical education, only exacerbate the situation.
What treatment is prescribed after a fracture?
Before making an appointment, the doctor conducts an examination, sends the patient for x-rays and additional tests. Provided that the fracture did not affect the internal organs in any way, the patient is given a tight dressing and painkillers are prescribed. A hospital presence is not required. If the injury led to the occurrence of consequences such as pneumothorax or hemothorax, then the victim will undergo a number of appropriate procedures.
Having been injured, remember that the treatment of rib fractures should be carried out only in the clinic.