Bone fracture and healing

Bone breaks incompletely, occurs most commonly during the infantile stages of life.

• Greenstick Fracture

• Stable Fracture

• Bluestick Fracture

• Comminuted Fracture

A female patient is brought to the emergency room with an injury to her lower leg from an ATV accident. You notice a white tip of a bone protruding through the skin as you cut her pant leg off. Her injury is described as what kind of fracture.

• Comminuted

• Pathologic

• Compound

• Stress

Bone breaks into many fragments.

• Shattered Fracture
• Traction Fracture 
• Comminuted Fracture
• The Magic School Bus

Closed Reduction

• Treating a bone through realignment with one's hands

• Treating a bone surgically with pins, rods, screws, and/or wires

• Placing the broken bone within a cast, splint, or boot

Open Reduction

• Treating a bone through realignment with one's hands

• Treating a bone surgically with pins, rods, screws, and/or wires

• Placing the broken bone within a cast, splint, or boot

Immobilization

• Treating a bone through realignment with one's hands

• Treating a bone surgically with pins, rods, screws, and/or wires

• Placing the broken bone within a cast, splint, or boot

The diagram shows a fracture that has two bones crushing into each other. What type of fracture is this?

• Simple

• Compound

• Impacted

• Comminuted

This forms as a bone heals and forms a bulging deposit around the break.

• Bone Callus
• Crepiutation
• Fat embolus
• Transverse Fracture

What is the major difference between a closed fracture and an open fracture?

• In a closed fracture, the bone doesn't break the skin; in an open fracture, it does

• In a closed fracture, the bone breaks all the way through; in an open fracture, it doesn't

• In a closed fracture, the bone breaks the skin; in an open fracture, it doesn't

• In a closed fracture, the bone doesn't break all the way through; in an open fracture, it does

What happens immediately after a bone breaks?

• The end of each piece of bone becomes brittle and dies

• The bone begins producing new tissue to bind the break

• Marrow from inside the bone begins leaking into the break

• Nothing happens, so the bone has to be glued together by a doctor