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A closed fracture is when the skin is still intact. A compound fracture is when the broken bone is sticking through the skin.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 11y agoNo - a compound fracture means that the bone is protrudung through the skin. A closed fracture is where the skin is intact.
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What is a simple fracture and a compound fracture?
a fracture in which skin is intact at site of fracture is a closed fracture or simple fracture whereas compound fracture or an open fracture is a fracture in which the skin is perforated and there is an open wound down to the site of the fracture.
What is the term for an open fracture?
A closed fracture may also be referred to as a simple fracture. An open fracture is also called a compound fracture.
Bone fracture that doesn't break the skin?
A simple fracture. A compound fracture is when the bone pierces the skin.
What fracture is called a closed fracture?
A simple fracture in which the bone does not penetrate the skin.
What fracture is the most simplest type?
an out of place bone like it is cracked sorta and the easiest to fracture is your wrist
Great deal of pain and bone proturding from his arm?
A compound fracture? is the bone in of out of the skin? has he fallen recently? It sounds like a closed fracture you should probably get him an x-ray
Why is a compound fracture piercing the skin is a more serious injury than a simple fracture?
That is a very good question! Open verses closed fractures make all the difference. In skin piercing or open fractures, you have contamination of the broken bone with bacteria. The bone infections are very difficult to treat.
What type of fracture is a fracture in which the bone is crushed?
Well there is the simple description 'Crush Fracture'. One might also refer to it as a comminuted fracture, meaning the bone is broken into two or more pieces, and add the prefix open or closed, denoting whether the bone is visible through a wound.
What bone fracture does not perforate the skin?
Closed Fracture
The bone is not protruding from the skin however the arm is in an abnormal position?
closed fracture
Also called a closed fracture?
Closed reduction
What tells you that the muscle keeps moving?
closed fracture and open fracture
