Medical question

[Annanan]

In this novel i am writing. i need to know long someone who got a chest flail in a car accident is likly to be in hospital and if anyone knows what treatment emergency and aftercare he would recieve.

[sqad617]

FOR THE NOVEL. White coated casualty staff, rushing your patient into Cas Theatre, phoning for a Dr, and an anaesthetist. O2 given by a mask with IV lines set up and blood taken for gas analysis. Your patient is in extreme pain and breating problems. In dashes your handsome anaesthetist and passes a tube into the mouth, through the larynx and into the trachea (windpipe) and hooks him up to nthe anaesthetic machine. pain relief is given and a portable X-ray machine is brought and a chest X-Ray is taken to assess underlying lung damage. Wow!! on X-ray air is seen escaping into the pleural cavity thus increasing distress of breathing. Young poorly paid thoracic registrar is called who inserts a drain into the chest between the ribs and hooks it up to a water bottle which bubbles indicating air being released/.

[sqad617]

Chapter 2. All action casualty scenario. Your patient is stabilised and transfered to the ICU. To add a bit of spice, his poor lung function affects his heart and he starts to fibrillate and stop....crash team..stand back...electrodes..bang. ECG back to normal defibrillation has been successful. All goes well is in ITU for 7-10 days and then transfered to the ward. Shoulld be out of hospital in 3 weeks back to work in 3months providing that there are no concommitant injuries oe complications.
Send me a copy of your novel when it has been publishedLOL

[MrXLA]

That is a fairly entertaining answer sqad but I think to write in that context credibly requires some actual research on the part of the writer!!!