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What is paradoxical movement of the chest?
Paradoxical chest movement is also know as flail chest and is usually caused by trauma to the chest. If a person suffers from broken ribs or punctured lungs, the air movement is reversed. Instead of chest expansion on inhalation, you will notice the skin being sucked in.
What is best treated with a pillow splint?
A pillow is used to treat a 'Flail Chest', (ribs that are broken in two or more places). When the patient breaths the flail part moves paradoxically and is very painful, the pillow relieves the pain by cushioning the movement.
What is Two or more broken adjacent ribs in two or more places?
It's could be an sign of of Flail chest. It produces a segment of the test wall that has lost continuity with the rest of the thoracic cage.
What has a chest but no ribs?
nothing
What has ribs but no chest?
nothing
What bone moves the most?
i would say the spine because its involved in the movement of many of the other bones
What is frail chest?
I think you mean "flail chest." Two or more adjacent ribs are broken in several places, usually from trauma. This portion of the chest moves independently form the rest of the chest. Life threatening!
What is curved bones in the chest called?
The curved bones of the chest is called ribs
Twelve pairs of these enclose the chest?
its your ribs
How to remove the ribs appear on the chest?
hmmm...
What is the medical name for chest bone?
The medical term for the chest bone is the sternum. It is a flat bone located in the center of the chest that connects to the ribs.
How many bones are in a T-rex's ribcage?
12 thoracic (chest) vertebrae, the 24 ribs
