Symptoms Of A Broken Rib

Helen Ellis Memorial staff thanked for saving woman from cardiac arrest 4 times

TARPON SPRINGS — Alicia Reinbolt thought she was having an allergic reaction to something. Her eyes had begun to swell, her throat was itchy and she had a hard time sleeping.

At 7 a.m. on May 29, Reinbolt, who lives in Palm Harbor, woke up her husband and asked to be taken to the hospital. In addition to her other symptoms, the 42-year-old, who went to the gym about four days a week, had begun to feel tingling in her left arm.

She arrived at Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital with a complaint of an allergic reaction. She left more than a week later as the hospital's "miracle."

Vessel spasms caused Reinbolt's heart muscles to not get enough blood. That, in turn, caused her heart to go into deadly arrhythmia. About 90 seconds after she arrived at the emergency room, Reinbolt went into cardiac arrest. The emergency room team revived her. She stopped breathing a second time. She was revived again. There was a third time, and a fourth.

"She died four times," said emergency room medical director Dr. Michael Longley, who worked on Reinbolt. "We shocked her four times, there were all kinds of medications, each time she would come back. It's really a miracle and highly unusual. I've never seen this before."

The entire episode lasted about 20 minutes, Longley said.

But Reinbolt remembers none of it.

"I felt like I was going to sleep and waking up," Reinbolt said Tuesday. "I didn't see the light. I didn't see my mother or my grandmother. I had told them already that I'm not ready, so don't even come get me."

Reinbolt remained at Helen Ellis for eight days, spending time in the emergency room, the intensive care unit and the heart catheterization unit, where an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was inserted in her heart to maintain its proper rhythm. Doctors and nurses, amazed at her miraculous survival, checked on her constantly.

Husband Todd Reinbolt called it the scariest moment of his life. He pondered, what if he hadn't been able to find his keys that morning and they were a minute later leaving for the hospital? That could have changed the outcome.

"There are only two things that saved her," said Todd Reinbolt, 48. "It was God and the workers at the hospital. The skills that those people have. And it just wasn't the skills they had, it was the way everybody cared for her from the time we went there until eight days later when we left. They really showed compassion, from food service to the doctors. I think they had a sense of awe of the situation.

Symptoms of a Cracked Rib | Bone Fracture treatment to cure broken ...

In human there are 12 pairs of ribs. Because of these ribs, we get the shape of our chest. Ribs play a very crucial part in human body as they protect some of the vital organs like heart, lungs, kidneys etc. But a crack in this area can really cause  discomfort

Let us see cracked ribs symptoms and causes as it is very crucial to know what exactly is this problem.

Before jumping to carked ribs symptoms we shall first discuss few necessary things about ribs. Ribs in human can be classified into three main categories. These are

Upper ribs are supposed to be the safest bone as these are protected by clavicle i.e. the collar bone and the shoulder blade. In general these does not get hurt easily but if get a brutal hit then they can lead to very dangerous situation. They can expose aorta. Aorta is one of the most crucial blood arteries that supplies blood to complete body. If aorta somehow gets hurt, it may result in instant death. Injuries to middle ribs can lead to puncturing of lungs. If lungs get punctured then all the pleural fluid may be out let and because of it, there may be collapsing of lungs. The lower ribs also help in protecting various organs like liver, spleen, kidneys. Hence you can yourself judge what important role ribs plays in the body. They act as a shield that takes away all the pressure.

Below are some of the main causes of cracked ribs.

There are many causes by which our ribs can get cracked or bruised. Breaking of ribs is extremely common in sports persons and athletes. Rib fracture can occur due to sprain or tear due to some kind of physical activity or not warming up prior any weight training. If a person gets hit, on the rib region then also he may suffer form a cracked rib. Osteoporosis is another reason of breaking of ribs in elderly people and female after menopause. In case of certain deformity, ribs can also get broken.

Rib pain is one of the most obvious sypmtom of Rib Fracture. Below are some of the very important cracked ribs symptoms .

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