Injuries: Types, Detection, and First Aid

Posted on Aug 4, 2024 in Physical Education

The Contusion

The contusion is the result of a physical injury to an agent, once the objects surface Roma (no brackets or plays) like a fist, the edge of a cabinet, wall ..

The bruises are lesions that do not break the skin but affects the tissues that are below.

As the intensity is classified as:

  • First grade: a blue and causes pain.

  • Second grade: It is more violent and larger vessels break and form a lump or nanyo and cause intense pain.

  • Third grade: Makes a very intense pain and a hematoma with extensive necrosis of tissue under the skin. This will make the blow on a wound.

Many joint bruises, injuries to the ligaments and cause ligamentous sprains and breaks. The one and the others are the result of a forced movement of the joint.

Sprain

A relaxation of the ligaments of the joint.

Ligament Rupture

We completely separated the two ends of the ligament and bone.

Fracture

An invoice will be breaking a bone.

Open Fracture

We say that the bill will open if the bone fragments in travel have broken the skin and has caused a wound which these last are fragments.

Broken Fracture

The skin is made ​​and without injury.

How to Detect a Fracture?

The diagnosis of the bill have to do the Doctor but can be suspicious and reporting the health service. The suspect will be more successful if they list the different signs:

  • Background: It may come given the traumatic agent, the violence of the trauma, the position he was before the process.
  • Symptoms: The symptoms, the person always says, it hurts any body part, a crack, pain, can not move that part of the body.
  • Signs: The information that we see many signs that do not have a scan because they harm the victim.
  • Local deformation.
  • The area is hot, aging and swelling.
  • Crepitació between fragment and fragment.
  • Abnormal mobility of the area
  • Purple leather
  • Hemorrhage leaving abroad
  • The limb may be cold, dust and the person may notice a tingling or even the tip can be insensitive. (Leave bruises)

The Dislocation

Hosea occurs when the two sides of a joint move with respect to the other and lose contact normal. With a normal dislocation usually rip one or more ligaments.

  • Cause local pain
  • Functional impotence
  • Swelling and bruising may

Manifestations that differentiate the dislocations of a sprain are the deformity and palpation of a gap in the joint space.

Wounds

These are injuries that break the continuity of the body such as skin, mucous membranes of an internal organ. All wounds cause pain and bleeding a month or less.

Types of Wounds

  • Abrasion or scratch: it is a wound that has a very wide area with very little depth produced by the body rubbing against a rough surface. Abrasions usually stay in external objects (bodies weird), children such as sand or gravel.
  • The cut or engraved:is a wound caused by cutting the fringe of an object, causing the main problem is that the cuts bleed a lot.
  • The sting: the wound caused by the sharp edge of an object. The surface of these wounds are very small in relation to its depth and bleed so much, but more likely to injure internal organs
  • Contused wound: it’s caused by a blow so violent but a ROM object that comes to separate the skin and tissue beneath it. Irregular and often hosts foreign bodies soaked.
  • The wound in loss of substance is that which left a crater and therefore has very jagged edges and separated.
  • Tear or stroke (lacreacio) is caused by an object that punctures. Introduced into an organ of the body after pulling to one side and tears the body. This destroys the fabric wound is infected very easily.
  • Flap avulsion wound: a wound is cut so that the proportion of skin and tissue left hanging below it., Connected by a pedicle.
  • The perforated wound: It is the most characteristic example of firearm injury. The projectile due to injuries throughout the journey, which can affect internal organs.
  • The bite: combines features of incised wounds, blunt, especially if splay pendant. Much or many infected and therefore needs to consider in the hospital.

Less wound complications can cause various complications that we classify in:

Local:

– Medium or large vessel injuries

– Nerve injury

– Tendon injuries

– Delayed healing or exuberant scarring

General:

– Infection, bleeding right.

In PA we focus primarily on the risk of the wound becoming infected and this risk will vary depending on whether the wound is clean or dirty. Imp

Wound clean ·: damaging agent, the body area and the internal side of the wound is not contaminated. Surgical wound

Wound · dirty: if the damaging agent is dirty or rusty object of jagged edges, if it affects a body cavity, if it breaks the skin was dirty. If the wound edges is tortuous. If the trauma introduced foreign bodies in the body and puts them in contact with internal tissues.

Actions in PA

Performance targets:

1. Contain bleeding

2. Avoid or reduce the infection: the risk of infection is greater than in dirty wounds clean.

Proceedings before a slight injury:

1. Remove the wound area of foreign bodies are easily.

2. Clean the wound well under running water to remove foreign bodies like smaller sand and gravel. Do it carefully and leave it as clean as possible.

3. Wash your hands and disinfect the wound.

– Put in a neutral taste wet gauze, a sponge or a soft brush and rub very gently (soap and water or hydrogen peroxide)

– The cleaning should be done with moves in spirals from the inside out not to encourage the entry of microbes from the surrounding skin, gauze and change as often as needed.

– Rinse the wound with wet gauze and another with water and dry with a clean cloth or sterile gauze.

4. Cover the wound with a clean cloth or sterile gauzes veins to make the appropriate bandages and plaster hypoallergenic allergens

5. Fix the cloth in place with a safety pin or ripping one edge and making a knot with both ends or plaster.

6. Direct the injured person to a medical service which will review the wound to ensure that no injuries to vessels, nerves or tendons and cusin edges of the wound and tetanus vaccines as appropriate.

Procedures in a serious injury

1. Remove foreign bodies and carefully clean the wound with water jet

2. Cover with clean cloth or sterile gauzes andoth or sterile gauzes and not manipulate it more.

3. Contact the injured person to a hospital with the best possible conditions and meanwhile monitor vital signs