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Hissing sounds from a chest wound indicates what?
An Open Chest Wound (Sucking Chest Wound)
How do you bandage an open 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.
Signs of a 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.
When dressing an open chest wound where do you tie the knot?
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.
What are the signs and symptoms of a chest wound?
An open chest wound would present with frothy blood at site of the injury, difficulty breathing (lung collapse), gurgling sound when breathing
A chest wound that allows air to go into and out of chest without breathing?
Penetrating chest wounds are often referred to as "sucking chest wounds."
What alternative is there to emergency thoracotomy?
a tube thoracostomy, a tube placed through chest wall to drain excess fluid. Over 80% of patients with a penetrating chest wound can be successfully managed with a thoracostomy
Hissing sounds from a chest wound indicates what?
An Open Chest Wound (Sucking Chest Wound)
How do you bandage an open 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.
What is a chest wound that allows air to flow into and out of the chest without breathing?
A SUCKING chest wound
Hissing sounds from a chest wound?
A hissing sound coming from a chest wound can indicate that air is being sucked into the chest cavity through the wound. This is known as pneumothorax.
Signs of an open chest wound?
the edges of the sealing material for an open chest wound should extend how far past the edge of the wound?
Signs of a 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.
How to maintain slate floors?
You have to make sure it is sealed with a penetrating sealer.
What is a sign and symptom of an open chest wound?
Coughing up blood, sucking or hissing sounds coming from a chest wound, frothy blood appearing from air bubbles coming from the wound
What divides to produce mobile cells that repair the dermis in a penetrating wound?
fibroblasts
Unilateral rise and fall of the chest is a sign of what?
Sucking Chest Wound
