Symptoms of throat trauma

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Throat trauma is often involved by neck trauma, often combined with cervical trachea and esophagus injury. If the throat is adjacent to the thyroid gland, neck blood vessels, nerves, cervical vertebra and other important organs, if it is injured at the same time, there may be massive hemorrhage, shock, asphyxia and other crises, which may lead to death. What symptom does throat mucous membrane damage have? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of throat trauma

Pharyngeal and laryngeal trauma is different from the type, location, scope and degree of trauma. The throat is characterized by the passage of breath and food, and many blood vessels in the neck. Therefore, shock, asphyxia and dysphagia easily occur in the early stage of trauma. Infection is easy to cause secondary hemorrhage in the middle stage of trauma. In the late stage, due to severe tissue defect, or infection leading to cartilage necrosis, or due to improper treatment of early wound, the sequelae of pharynx, larynx, trachea, esophagus scar stenosis, fistula formation or vocal cord paralysis.

Throat contusion, only involving mucous membrane, with less bleeding, often with blood in sputum. Open injury of larynx and pharynx can sometimes lead to shock due to more blood vessels in neck and more blood loss. If the carotid artery is injured, it can cause massive hemorrhage and death. If the internal jugular vein is punctured, there is a risk of air embolism. For blind canal injury, the wound is small and bleeding is large, especially when the wound is close to the branch of the common artery. If the neck wound is small, bleeding is not much, but the neck has a rapidly increasing hematoma, or pulsatile mass, systolic murmur and tremor, it is arteriovenous fistula. If the pulse of superficial temporal artery or facial artery disappears, it also indicates the injury of great vessels in neck and should be treated immediately to avoid accidents.

The mandible and tongue were injured and the tongue fell back; Swelling and obstruction of laryngeal soft tissue; Neck hematoma compression; Laryngeal and tracheal cartilage fracture, dislocation, foreign body, shrapnel, bone fragment, blood clot, bilateral vocal cord abduction paralysis caused by bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve injury can cause dyspnea. The symptoms were inspiratory dyspnea, which should be treated in time.

matters needing attention

In the treatment of pharyngeal and laryngeal trauma, the first-aid preparations should be made and carried out under good lighting conditions. The treatment of shock, hemorrhage and asphyxia should be carried out according to the specific conditions of the patients.