Symptoms of rib fracture

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When the chest is injured, whether it is closed or open injury, rib fracture is prone to occur, accounting for 90% of the thoracic fracture. Children's ribs are elastic and not easy to break. Middle aged and old people's ribs are elastic and easy to fracture. Symptoms of rib fracture? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of rib fracture

Local pain is the most obvious symptom of rib fracture, which is aggravated by coughing, deep breathing or body rotation. Sometimes patients can hear or feel bone friction.

Pain and chest stability are damaged, which can limit respiratory activity, breathe quickly and reduce alveolar ventilation. Patients are afraid of coughing and phlegm retention, resulting in obstruction of lower respiratory tract * secretion, consolidation of lung or atelectasis, which should be emphasized in patients with old or weak patients or those with previous lung diseases.

When the flail chest exists, when inhaled, the negative pressure of the chest increases and the softened part of the chest wall sinks inward; When exhaling, the chest pressure increases and the injured chest wall floats and bulges, which is opposite to the movement of other chest walls. It is called "abnormal breathing movement". Abnormal breathing movement can make the chest pressure on both sides unbalanced, and the mediastinum moves back and forth with breathing, which is called "mediastinum swing", affecting blood return and causing circulatory dysfunction, It is one of the important factors that lead to and aggravate shock.

matters needing attention

Rib fracture is very easy to occur in daily life, when fracture occurs, we can carry out simple treatment according to our own understanding, and then go to the regular hospital for treatment. Can let the body get better recovery! For the high-risk group prone to fracture, we should pay attention to their physical condition.