How to treat hemothorax?

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Hemothorax is a disease with low incidence rate. The treatment of hemothorax usually depends on the amount of blood loss, that is, the amount of blood chest. The hemothorax has serious harm to the patient. It will cause shock to the patient. If the blood chest is not treated in time, it will cause complications such as dyspnea, shock, chest infection, coagulative hemothorax and so on. So patients must be treated in time, so what are the treatment methods of hemothorax? Now let's have a detailed understanding

How to treat hemothorax?

Hemothorax treatment method 1: conservative treatment, if the patient is in a state of shock, first to supplement blood volume, to quickly infusion of crystalloid fluid and 706 generation of plasma. If hemothorax is not treated in time, with its development, it will lead to dyspnea, shock, thoracic infection, coagulative hemothorax and other complications.

The second method of treatment for hemothorax is surgical treatment. Patients with shock caused by massive hemothorax should undergo thoracotomy immediately if they have no satisfactory response to various effective rescue measures. If the patient's blood loss continues to increase after replenishing the congestive capacity, and there is no decreasing trend, thoracotomy must be performed.

Hemothorax treatment method 3: for patients who can not determine whether there is active bleeding temporarily, closed thoracic drainage should be placed as soon as possible to facilitate further observation and judgment, so as to prevent the accumulation of blood in the chest. Hemothorax has serious harm to patients, so it must be treated in time.

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If there is a large amount of blood in patients, pleural puncture must be carried out early to extract the blood and promote lung expansion. Antibiotics can be injected into the pleural cavity to prevent infection. Hemothorax is a serious harm to patients, which can cause shock