25 myths about injuries that curious to know only in theory
Health / / December 19, 2019
Recently, Twitter users @glazzzvladAka Moscow trauma surgeon Vladislav Viktorovich, offered for huskies write facts about modern traumatology. Layfhaker armed with the most interesting of them, found the least interesting information and made a list of common myths about injuries.
fractures
Myth 1. The crack in the bone less serious injury than a fracture
Crack and there is a fracture, but without bias and with the preservation of the isthmus intact bone. TO fractures also include fissuring, depressions and cracking.
Myth 2. If you can move your finger, it's not broken
In some cases fracture It may affect the mobility of the affected part of the body, but most often you can move it. Mobility should not be the determining factor for self-diagnosis.
Myth 3. The turning point can be recognized by pain or edema
The pain can be unbearable, and can be quite moderate. If only because it is a subjective impression among the people there are very hardy and patient. In addition, the pain is not necessarily localized at the fracture site, as the splinters of bone damage nearby tissues and discomfort may spread to a larger area.
So be guided by the level of pain and even more so to wait for the bruising is not worth an injury - it is an occasion to see a doctor.
Myth 4. Injured limb to cool or warm
With cooling that's right: an ice compress to ease the pain. With warming happens the opposite situation: it will cause the blood flow to the site of exposure to heat will increase swelling, and pain becomes stronger.
Myth 5. For ribs fracture need to strongly hit
Break ribs may, for example, when coughingRib Fracture Associated with Bordetella pertussis Infection or sneezing. Injury occurs due to the strong contraction of the muscles of the chest wall.
Myth 6. The doctor will splice the broken ribs faster
In most cases, doctors simply monitor the process of matching. Medical care, with emergencyIt is required when the rib is broken in several places. This injury prevents breathing, and needed an operation.
Myth 7. fracture of the spine leads to total immobility
You can get a fracture of the spine, and not know it. If there is no damage to the spinal cord and spinal nerves, motor function is usually preserved.
Myth 8. spinal cord injury immobilizes forever
People with such trauma commonly encountered with some loss of sensory and motor functions. But the extent of the damage, and the possibility of recovery depends on the individual case. Several injured after rehabilitation returned to normal life.
Myth 9. The physician can immediately give a precise forecast for recovery
If the doctor is not a mind reader (but probably not), he can not say exactly how many will take the rehabilitation and what she will be the outcome. This is influenced by many factors, including the patient's mood.
Myth 10. Gypsum completely immobilize the fracture site
Bones continue to move even in the cast - it is a natural process of splicing. But part of the bone may rush in different directions, and therefore have to do an X-ray periodically to track and adjust it.
Myth 11. Merging of bones - a natural process
Basically yes. Doctors give the bones grow together way nature intended. But in some cases it is necessary to intervene in the natural process. For example, if we are talking about a possible deterioration of joint function due to the formation of callus. In this case, the bone is firmly fixed so that it does could not move.
Myth 12. With the help of diet can speed up the process of matching bones
matching term can not be reduced - you can only lengthen. But balanced the menu in any case will not hurt.
Cuts and traumatic amputations
Myth 13. When cuts can impose itself bandage srastetsya itself
In some cases, do not even go to the emergency room, and the cause whip help:
- If the bleeding does not stop within five minutes. Blood loss is unlikely to make you healthier.
- If the wound was a foreign object. Removing it should be a doctor, otherwise there is a risk to hurt yourself even more.
- If a badly cut hand. In the emergency room will not help you - you need a surgeon, which will connect the damaged tissue so as to maintain full mobility of the wrist.
Myth 14. Cut fingers sewn only in the movies
If you search the news by keyword "sewn finger", then be surprised how oftenDo not stick your hand under the saw doctors have to do these operations. And severed limbs began to sew yesterdayHow to fly all my life, to get the clock out of the hands of de Gaulle and work in 100 years.
True, @glazzzvlad writes that arm will recover with great zeal, than leg. well developed lower limb prosthesis and allows the patient to lead a normal life, while the reconstruction - a process long and painful. So it is better to cut off a leg than to restore.
Myth 15. Tetanus nobody have not sick, vaccination should not be done
Russians ill with tetanus rarely. For example, in the Kama such a diagnosis no one set from 2004 to 2016The first in 12 years recorded cases of tetanus in the Kama year. But this became possible thanks to vaccinations: Vaccination program reduced the incidence of this infection in 50About tetanus in the Russian Federation time.
High mortality and portable hard symptoms - a good reason to pay a visit to the emergency room if you have damaged skin. You can become infected simply by droppingGirl, hospitalized in Samara diagnosed with "tetanus", remains in serious condition on the street and skinned his knee.
bites
Myth 16. Rabies make 40 shots in the stomach
Adults rabies vaccine is administered in the shoulder, the children - in front of the thigh. The buttocks can not make a shot - it's written in the instructionRabies vaccine cultural concentrated purified inactivated dry to the drug. And the injections is not 40, but only six.
Myth 17. Going to the doctor is necessary, if bitten, "wild" animal
The animal becomes a carrier of the pathogen in about 10 days before symptoms begin to appear. It is dangerous, even if it looks nice and healthy. Particularly should stump when begins to caress the animal, which came from the wild - this indicates a disease, because such behavior is unnatural.
In complete security one can feel only when you are bitten by pet cat, which will have only seen through the window.
Myth 18. You can not rush to the doctor until symptoms show up first
Since rabies is not working. When symptoms occur, the medicine is powerless. Mortality from rabies close to 100%.
History knows a few cases of recovery from rabies. For example, 15-year-old girl recoveredSurvival after Treatment of Rabies with Induction of Coma after immersion in an artificial coma. But let's face it, a chance to replenish these statistics there is almost none of us.
Myth 19. Preventive vaccination against rabies is not
There are, but only for people at risk - those who have to interact with the animals to their activities. Others often vaccinated by the fact of being bitten.
road accident
Myth 20. Seatbelts in cars only prevent escape
According to WHOSeat belts and child restraints - a road safety manual for managers and specialists, Seat belts reduce the risk of death to front seat passenger by 40-50%, on the back - 75%. If the driver has not fastened in the collision time, in 90% of cases, he will break his chest and injure the abdomen. And if he or one of the passengers will fly through the windshield, it will end in death in most cases.
User @glazzzvlad the chances emitted through the windshield at 20%.
@glazzzvlad, trauma surgeonOn each board tacked, of course, there are hundreds of people who are familiar only survived thanks to the fact that he was not fastened. But more often buckled come themselves, but nepristognutyh bring and often do not take away.
Typically, the arguments against the use of the belt due to the fact that people do not have time to get out of a burning car. But the car lights when the collision occurs at high speed. Nepristognuty person in this case still can not get out, because, most likely, will be dead.
Myth 21. The victim in an accident you need as quickly as possible to get out of the car, or it will explode
If there is no fire and lubricants are not spilled, the victim can not touch in any case. His condition and the possibility of transportation should evaluate doctors. Moving in spinal injuries can significantly worsen the situation.
It is better to take care of the placement of warning signs at the scene. This will prevent a situation where an inattentive driver crashed into an affected machine.
Myth 22. Location of fatal accidents covered with blood
Fatal injury can be invisible from the outside. At the moment of collision of a person is experiencing almost cosmic overload, especially if the car is moving at a high speed. From hitting the car stops suddenly, and human organs continue to move within the body. Collision with the chest can cause them to rupture and internal bleeding.
burns
Myth 23. Severe burns must be lubricated with oil or sour cream
These products - a favorable environment for microbial growth. The colony of microorganisms - not at all what needs to painful open wound. In the emergency room you need to go immediately, there will be told what to do.
Myth 24. To burn you need to make ice
Any object with a negative temperature burns more appropriate for torture than for help. The contrast of temperatures only accelerate the destruction of the skin. Pain when slack burns can be reduced by substituting the affected part under cool (no ice) water.
bleeding
Myth 25. When bleeding from the nose is necessary to throw back his head back
This can not be done as great a risk of choking blood. On the contrary, the head should be tilted forward. And not to pour all around the nose can be inserted cotton swabs.
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