Fractures and management Flashcards
Week 5
What are the types of MOIs that lead to fractures?
- Twisting
- Avulsion
- Stress
- Pthological
What are the types of fracture?
- Transverse
- Spiral
- Comminuted
- Oblique
- Impacted
- Greenstick
What are the characteristics of a transverse fracture?
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What are the characteristics of a spiral fracture?
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What are the characteristics of a comminuted fracture?
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What are the characteristics of a oblique fracture?
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What are the characteristics of a impacted fracture?
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What are the characteristics of a greenstick fracture?
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Is it upper extremity or lower extremity fractures that are mostly associated with more severe / life threatening injuries?
Lower extremity
Characteristics of pelvic fracture…
Characteristics of patella fracture…
Characteristics of calcaneal fracture…
Characteristics of mid shaft of femur fracture…
Characteristics of neck of femur fracture…
What are some signs and symptoms of a fracture?
- Holding / supporting / protecting by the patient
- Swelling
- Loss of function
- Irregularity
- Pain
- Deformity
- Unnatural mobility
- Crepitus (sounds of bone ends grating)
- Tenderness on site of bone
