Chest Trauma

You never know what future has for you. It can be good or bad. Whatever situation has for you, it is necessary to maintain cool. But this is easy to say and difficult to do. After any kind of traumatic event, adults and children alike can find it hard to cope with the aftereffects of the situation. Anyone will be affected by the trauma caused due to the emergency situation.   A traumatic event can be anything from a car crash to a natural disaster but can lead to difficulty moving on and victims can even experience flashbacks and anxiety attacks while children are susceptible to regression during these extremely difficult times. Trauma may be experienced in any part of the body. It may be chest trauma or brain trauma. It may be head trauma or dental trauma. Any physical injury may lead to trauma.

Chest trauma has become very common these days. The common name for traumatic pneumothorax is a collapsed lung. When a chest trauma occurs, it can result in the collapsing of a lung. Whether the chest trauma is penetrating like a knife wound or gunshot wound, or blunt like the impact of a steering wheel, the result can be a collapsed lung.

 Injury to the lung can cause a pocket of air to become trapped between the injured lung and the chest wall, keeping the lung from becoming with air on its own. Sometimes the chest trauma that caused the injury can add blood to the pocket of air. Some risky medical procedures can also result in a collapsed lung. When those procedures are performed, the doctor will watch for symptoms. All that is needed to repair a collapsed lung is to remove the pocket of air. Whether the procedure is a simple one depends on whether there is further chest trauma, which can make entry through the chest wall dangerous.

Of course, chest trauma can cause other dangerous injuries. The chest contains the heart, lungs, and chest wall itself. Broken or fractured ribs can cause lacerations to the organs. Serious injury to two or more ribs can cause part of the thoracic cage to separate from the chest wall. Broken ribs can also be pushed in toward the lungs creating the danger of a punctured lung. Emergency medical personnel consider a chest trauma serious. When an injured person is examined, one of the first things to be looked at is the ability of the patient to breathe normally.

It is necessary to take out chest X-ray in order to find out the problem. The diagnosis can give you the correct solution. Externally it may seem that the injury is minor. But on diagnosis it can be found that the internal injury is deep and cannot be ignored. In United States, blunt chest trauma is significant source of mortality. Penetrating chest trauma also contributes to death statistics. There may be chest trauma due to rib injury or muscle strain. Chest trauma may be mainly classified as blunt or penetrating. Diagnosis of blunt chest injury is often difficult and requires CT scan. In case of penetrating injuries a surgery is required. However the penetrating chest trauma gives fast recovery than blunt one, as complexities are more with blunt chest injuries.

Chest trauma is caused due to many types of chest injuries. And some of those chest injuries are flail chest, rib fractures, hemothorax, pulmonary injury, sternal fractures and many more.

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