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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.
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What type of fracture is known when a bone is protruding from a casualty lower arm?
Compound fracture .
You assess a casualty and discover that he is in pain and has a bone protruding from his lower arm this is an example of of what type of fracture?
If you assess a casualty and discover that the patient has a bone protruding from his lower arm, the patient has an open fracture, also known as a compound fracture.
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
What type of fracture has bone protruding out?
Compound Fracture
What type of fracture has bone protruding throughskin?
A compound fracture is when a bone protrudes through the skin.
What type of fracture has one bone protruding from the skin?
A compound fraccture
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 patient has an open wound and bone is protruding?
It is called a compound or open fracture.
What type of fracture has protruding bone from the skin?
It is called an open fracture. But there are other ways to further classify this type. It is the Gustilo open fracture classification which classifies into three major categories (types) depending on the mechanism of the injury, soft tissue damage, and degree of skeletal involvement.
What type of bone protruding from the skin?
femur
A bone fracture where the bone is broken into many fragments is?
a type of bone fracture producing many bone fragments is?
