First aid in clavicle fracture.

 By Merkulov, candidate for medical science.

Advices giving specialists in  traumatology and orthopaedic  by Pirogov. This  must to everybody.

Clavicle is a one bone, connecting a shoulder waist with body skeleton and thus any high strains by axe an extremity, when a person falling on a wrist of  abducted hand, elbow or shoulder, causing her damaging. And fracture of clavicle are of  hit by any hard item, as by garden s item, or swings.

 A recognize fracture is not hard, and in any moving arm by is hurt , in clavicle having oedema, deforming, and bone fragments are visible protrudes under skin.

And in adult fracture of clavicle characterizing as shifting of bone fragments, and in shortening  of attached to clavicle muscles a central fragment her shifting to top, back , to peripheral  are to below and to the front, picture 2.

Complicated in fractures are rare having, but they are very dangerous ,that fragments of clavicle damaging are under her finding nerves of shoulder plexus, under clavicle vein, artery, lung, picture 3, and for avoiding it a right for first aid add.

Avoid fix are fragments under skin protruding, a first is give for damaged extremity a position,where are relaxing muscles of shoulder waist and fragments staying less mobility. As this fighting from increasing hurt, and preventing a probably damaging under clavicle vessel nerve bunch.

Bend both hands in patient  in elbows, move back for over shoulder and put under spine any stick ,that he is keeping in elbow bends, picture 4, and in this position patient deliver at hospital.

 If same injury in children happened or adult, damages hand better hang kerchief bandage under straight corner , picture 5, that  relaxing muscles of shoulder waist and decreasing mobility of bone fragments by broken clavicle.

And on restoring curing time and after removing fixing bandage are not carry heavy items for month, sleep on the hard bed on the spine.