• Introduction

    Make incision according to surgical demand and fracture reduction. Patients suffering from bone defects receive bone grafting, the new bone tissues should be tied up with suture; Prepare the plate with inside diameter 10% less than that of fractured rib; and immerse it into icy stroke-physiological saline solution(0¡æ-5¡æ); Use open clamp to expand the embracing arms with opening slightly larger than the diameter of fractured rib, then place it on fractured area. And apply hot-compress on embracing arms by using medical gauze of stroke-physiological saline solution(45¡æ-50¡æ) in order to resume its original shape, and to ensure the embracing, internal fixation; Sew up the incision after ensuring the reliable and stable fixation of anatomic reduction;