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A compound or open fracture is one in which the bone fracture punctures the skin. The exposed bone runs the risk of acquiring a deep bone infection.

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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 example of fracture is it when you assess a casualty and discover he is in pain with a bone protruding from his lower arm?

Open 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.


You assess a casualty and discover that he is in a great deal of pain and has a bone protruding from his lower arm this is an example of an?

a "compound fracture" or open 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 throughskin?

A compound fracture is when a bone protrudes through the skin.


You assess a casualty and discover that he is in a great deal of pain and has a bone protruding from his lower arm This is an example of a?

open fracture


When you assess a casualty and discover that he is in a great deal of pain and has a bone protruding from his lower arm this is an example of a what?

Open Fracture


What type of fracture has bone protruding out?

Compound Fracture


At the scene of an accident you assess a casualty and discover that he is in a great deal of pain and has a bone protruding from his lower arm?

open fracture


In an accident...you assess a casualty and discover that he is in a great deal of pain and has a bone protruding from his lower arm what is this an example of?

open fracture


What is it called when you can see the bone protruding from the wound?

An open compound fracture.