Hiding Ribs/Liver Injury
Hello, it's my first time here & I think I’m so lucky to find this community, it’s very useful & I could get a lot of information I needed in various topics. But I still have some questions that I couldn’t find an answer for it
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- Broken ribs, as such, do not necessarily need professional medical treatment at all. My mother, a keen skier and mountaineer, was always cracking ribs in accidents and would simply get my dad to bind them tightly with an elasticated bandage; that support would allow her to carry right on skiing or climbing with little if any pain. (It's not generally advised these days to bandage mildly-broken ribs, because if then you just go to bed and rest the constriction might lead to pleurisy; but if you're planning to continue to throw yourself off mountains all day, it's perfectly OK.)
- The surface wound from a bit of shrapnel hitting his ribs enough to crack them could produce a lot of blood and pain without necessarily being serious. Nor is there any reason to suppose it would necessarily get infected, if he takes reasonable measures to swab it clean and cover it with a dressing. The contents of an ordinary domestic medicine cabinet would be quite adequate for this.
But for a piece of shrapnel to hit his liver, it would have to smash right through his ribs, not just break them - you're talking a major internal injury, with massive shock and trauma, such as nobody could self-treat.
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Your second point seems more plausible, since I'm not looking for a big enjury with long term effects, I'm looking for an injury that looks a REAAALY bad one but it can be treated. So thanks for the info :)
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