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How To Treat Hyperventilation Syndrome

Hyperventilation syndrome is not life-threatening, but can lead to a significant decrease in carbon dioxide. Hyperventilation syndrome is scary and leads to increased anxiety, which makes the hyperventilation syndrome worse.

How to Treat a Sucking Chest Wound

A hole in the chest (gunshot wound, stabbing or other puncture wound) makes a new pathway for air to travel into the chest when it expands. That hole pulling air into the chest cavity is called a sucking chest wound.

How To Treat Flail Chest

Flail chest refers to a serious breech in the integrity of the ribcage from more than one adjacent broken ribs broken in more than one place each. Instead of rigidly holding the normal shape of the chest, flail chest results in a segment of the chest wall flailing back and forth in the opposite direction of the rest of the chest wall.