AI6YR BenMar 19

Random: Collapsed lung? Two weeks to recover?!? That's a major, critical injury (I surmise, flail chest --where you break your ribs in multiple places, leading to a collapsed lung and inability to breathe).

AP: "Pistons guard Cade Cunningham has collapsed lung, will miss time, AP source says"

https://apnews.com/article/pistons-cade-cunningham-hurt-b3902c010af974a3a9f0693fc33f52a7?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#firstaid

Pistons' Cade Cunningham has collapsed lung, will miss at least 2 weeks

All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed lung and is expected to miss at least two weeks and possibly more. The team announced the diagnosis Thursday. The Pistons listed Cunningham as out for Thursday’s game in Washington with a left back contusion. Cunningham got hurt in Tuesday’s win over Washington, leaving midway through the opening quarter with what the team called back spasms. Cunningham is averaging 24.5 points and 9.9 assists for the Pistons. Detroit entered Thursday 3 1/2 games ahead of Boston for the top spot in the East with 14 games remaining.

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Show threadAI6YR BenMar 19
That is an "evacuate immediately" and nothing you can do in the field injury, if I am reading that right. #firstaid
Show threadMsMeropeMar 19
@ai6yr
Yeah, pretty much you try to stabilize it as much as you possibly can but you’re looking at Potential pneumothorax, and Lord knows what else depending on where that break is, and what other organs or vascular structures it’s gonna puncture
Show threadFreddyB Aviation Photography
@MsMerope @ai6yr Yep splint that sucker and have a needle handy for decompression small sand bags are good for this at least on the lateral aspect
Mar 19 at 6:04pmWeb
Show threadMsMeropeMar 19

@cvvhrn @ai6yr
Needle decompression is a little bit out of my scope of practice

Though there are some people that I would like to jab with a needle or a machete 🤷🏻‍♀️

Show threadFreddyB Aviation PhotographyMar 19
@MsMerope @ai6yr lol
Show threadAI6YR BenMar 19
@cvvhrn @MsMerope Yeah, decompression out of scope of WFA training. (used to be in there, but they removed it... probably figured people would screw it up and/or there were bad outcomes).
Show threadJim HubbellMar 19
@ai6yr @cvvhrn @MsMerope
You might argue anyone with a collapsed lung in the wilderness is already suffering a bad outcome.
Show threadJim HubbellMar 20
@ai6yr @cvvhrn @MsMerope
I've learned today there is more than one way to cause a collapsed 🫁.
Show threadFreddyB Aviation PhotographyMar 20
@Dougfir @ai6yr @MsMerope Oh man let me count the ways lol
Show threadFreddyB Aviation PhotographyMar 19
@ai6yr @MsMerope Second intercostal space mid clavicular line and go over the top of the rib to avoid the nerve bundle