Fractures of the ribs usually occur with a blunt chest injury, often under the influence of a significant external force (for example, when the car stops abruptly, hit with a baseball bat or falls from a height).
The goal is to closely match the edges of the wound, eliminating their tucking and the formation of closed spaces in the wound, to minimize the tension of each individual suture, leaving a minimum of foreign material in the subcutaneous tissue.
Treatment includes wound toilet, local anesthesia, examination, surgical treatment and suturing. The tissues should be treated as carefully as possible.
Swaying is a complex of symptoms, usually involving nausea, often accompanied by vague abdominal discomfort, vomiting, dizziness, and related symptoms; cause - repeated angular and linear acceleration and deceleration.
The altitude sickness includes several associated syndromes caused by a reduction in available O2 in the air at high altitudes. Acute mountain sickness (OHS), the easiest form, manifests itself as a headache along with one or more systemic manifestations.
Frostbite - damage to tissues when they freeze. Primary manifestations can be deceptively benign. The skin can be white or with blisters numb; warming causes severe pain.
