An Open Pneumothorax, also known as a sucking chest wound, is a hole in the chest-from a gunshot wound, stabbing, or other puncture wound-that makes a new pathway for air to travel into the chest cavity. When the chest cavity is expanded in order to inhale, air not only goes into the mouth and nose like normal, it also goes into this new hole in the chest or even back...or both. That’s bad. Air entering the chest cavity through a hole in the chest or back reduces the amount of air being delivered into the lungs and reduces the oxygen that can be delivered and distributed into a patient’s system.
Sucking chest wounds are dangerous because they lead to collapsed lungs. Treating an open pneumothorax wound requires two things: keeping air from going into the chest through this hole while still letting extra air out that is leaking through a hole in a punctured lung.
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28 авг 2024
