Treatment of rib fracture

summary

When there is rib fracture, the most important thing is to take treatment, so the treatment also needs to be principled, if the rib fracture closed patients, mainly a single rib fracture, then we should reduce the pain of patients, prevent the occurrence of complications, if it is an open fracture, this time we must thoroughly remove the trauma, prevent the occurrence of complications The infection occurred in the patient. Let's make a specific analysis below. When there is rib fracture, how to treat it?

Treatment of rib fracture

First: in the case of rib fracture, the first thing we should think of is to stop the pain of the patient, because when the patient has rib fracture, it often causes pain, so in this case, we need to take analgesic drugs in time, we can choose procaine, or take closed fracture.

Second: after the fracture, we need to take the way of fixation. If a closed single rib fracture occurs, we can choose multi head chest belt or elastic chest belt for fixation to reduce the pain of patients. To fix the ribs.

Third: in case of fracture, we'd better maintain the patient's respiratory function, because the ribs are mainly responsible for our breathing, and we can give oxygen when necessary. We should encourage the patient to cough and expectorate, so as to reduce the occurrence of hypoxia, and we can choose a breathing machine when necessary.

matters needing attention

What we said above is the treatment principle of rib fracture, so after fracture occurs in our life, we should timely choose antibiotics for treatment, to prevent infection and tetanus.