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? asked in SportsMartial Arts · 1 decade ago

What are the immediate medical effects of a broken trachea?

Self explanatory question, also how much force does it roughly take to break the trachea? Thanks.

Update:

Ok thanks for the detail but I was thinking more along the line of you punching or being punched in the throat, then having your windpipe collapse.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Two pounds of pressure, placed on a four square inch circle or less. This will disable breathing, causing death within two minutes. That pain is surprisingly low, but it is hard not to panic. Unconsciousness should result withing forty five seconds, as the panic will increase their heart rate, causing them to use up there oxygen faster. The easiest way to fix this in the field is with a trichotomy, of which the proper technique to preform is quite easy. Of course, this varies greatly on the accuracy and power of th strike. This is assuming the strike was perfectly placed.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Broken Trachea

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    6 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Symptoms include a cough (often called a "goose honk cough" due to its sound), especially when excited. This cough is usually paroxysmal in nature. Other symptoms include exercise intolerance, respiratory distress, and gagging while eating or drinking. Tracheal collapse is easily seen on an x-ray as a narrowing of the tracheal lumen. Treatment for mild to moderate cases include corticosteroids, bronchodilators, and antitussives. Medical treatment is successful in about 70 percent of tracheal collapse cases. Severe cases can be treated with surgical implantation of a tracheal stent (inside or outside of the trachea) or prosthetic rings. Extraluminal (outside the trachea) stenting is generally only used for tracheal collapse in the neck region. Intraluminal stenting has shown more promise for success with intrathoracic cases, especially using nitinol, a type of shape memory alloy composed of nickel and titanium. Potential problems include stent migration and fracture.

    Edit: By the way ask this in the Medical section. The doctors on there are far more knowledgeable about the human body then these martial artists.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    While I don't know exactly how much force it actually takes to break or displace some ones trachea (considering it depends on how it's hit and from what angle) the effects can range from Respiratory distress to Respiratory Arrest (Absents of breathing). Also, trachea deviation can cause air to deviate from going to the Bronchioles causing air to build up outside of the lungs on one side of the person's chest and build up pressure that literally contracts the lung on that side which in turn can cause heart failure.

    Source(s): EMT Basic.
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    5 years ago

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    It would take 5 years according to Einsteins Theory and proved by experimentation. See source.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's different force, different reaction. I don't know how much internal bleeding Medical attention is a humanitarian imperative.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Extreme pain I suspect.

  • 5 years ago

    Death

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