An Open Chest Wound (Sucking Chest Wound)
If you are not sure if a chest wound has penetrated the chest wall completely, treat the wound as though it were an open chest wound.
Umm, well if it was an open chest wound..there would be an obvious HOLE/CUT in your chest. you would be able to see it.
There shouldn't be a knot to tie. The treatment for an open chest wound is to put a piece of plastic over it and tape it down on the sides so that air cannot get in or out of the wound. There's nothing to tie down anywhere in that. You could be thinking of flail chest which has more to do with broken bones then an open chest wound. As an army medic I find your question soul crushingly confusing.
An open chest wound would present with frothy blood at site of the injury, difficulty breathing (lung collapse), gurgling sound when breathing
stab
a stab wound to the heart can result in cardiac tamponade
An Open Chest Wound (Sucking Chest Wound)
If you are not sure if a chest wound has penetrated the chest wall completely, treat the wound as though it were an open chest wound.
A stab wound
you stab it in the chest
LAYER CLOSURE OF three- inch stab wound of the neck
LAYER CLOSURE OF three- inch stab wound of the neck
A SUCKING chest wound
stab
LAYER CLOSURE OF three- inch stab wound of the neck
A stab wound is any type of injury to the body which results from a object piercing the skin. They are commonly associated with knives but can be caused by any sharp object.