Fractures MT

Which fracture is where the bone is visible through the skin?

• Compound Fracture
• Stable Fracture
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What kind of fracture is shown in the picture?

• Open or compound
• Closed or simple

• Open

• Closed

• Trauma

• Stress

• Pathologic

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

• Comminuted
• Compound
• Transverse displaced
• Transverse non-displaced

• Compound Fracture
• Greenstick Fracture
• Transverse fracture displaced
• Compression fracture

Bone breaks into many fragments.

• Shattered Fracture
• Traction Fracture 
• Comminuted Fracture
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 a fracture in which the bone breaks diagonally. 

• Oblique Fracture
• Fracture
• Diagonal Fracture
• Horizontal Fracture 

• compression
• simple
• compound
• spiral

What is an open fracture?

• A break with two or more fractures of the same bone
• A break of a bone joint
• One in which the two sides of the break do not touch each other
• One in which the sharp edges of the bone cut through the skin