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What type of fracture has one bone protruding from the skin?
A compound fraccture
What type of fracture has the bone protruding from the?
A compound or open fracture, where the bone is visible sticking out of the skin
If the bone is not protruding from te skin but in an abnormal position what type of fracture is it?
Complicated
What type of fractrue has bone protruding from the skin?
Open fracture - a broken bone protudes through the skin or an external wound leads to a broken bone
What type of fracture is a bone protruding from the lower arm?
When a bone fracture protrudes through the skin it is classified as an open fracture. With an open fracture there is a risk of deep bone infection.
What type of fracture has bone protruding throughskin?
A compound fracture is when a bone protrudes through the skin.
What is a broken bone protruding called?
When the fractured bone protrudes from the skin, this is known as a compound fracture.
The bone is not protruding from the skin however the arm is in an abnormal position?
closed fracture
What is a break in the bone?
A fracture. May be of several types - ~Greenstick (partial/common in children) ~Comminuted-(basically shattered) ~Compound-(protruding out of the skin ) ~Simple-(not protruding out of the skin) ~Spiral-(around the bone) ~Transverse-(across the bone horizontally) ~Longitudinal-(long ways up a bone) ~Impacted-(broken ends wedged into one another)
What type of patient has an open wound and bone is protruding?
It is called a compound or open fracture.
What type of fracture is known when a bone is protruding from a casualty lower arm?
Compound fracture .
What type of fracture has bone protruding out?
Compound Fracture
