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vt fractures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Open VS. Close Compound VS. Simple | wheather the skin is broken or not |
| Fracture Repare | Reduction |
| Displaced | When the two bones are not together |
| Nondisplaced | Where the bone is still together |
| Comminuted | Means alot of pieces |
| Impacked | Where you take two ends of bones and jam them together |
| Hx | History |
| Tx | Treatmeant |
| Dx | Dianose |
| Rx | precription |
| Px | Lab/outcome for disease |
| Fx | Fracture |
| Stability | Will stay together |
| Strength | You can put weight on it |
| Stages of fracture | Hemoatoma, Cartilagenous callus, Bony callus, Remodelling |
| Hemoatoma | Blood cot, no stability/strength, 3days |
| Cartilagenouse Callus | Creating cartilage over broken bone then allows bone cells in to heal, stability/ no strength, 3 weeks |
| Bony callus | stability/strength, 3 months |
| Remodelling | Takes everything back to orginal shape, 3 years |
| Salter fracture | growth through cartilage |
| Sequestrum | peices of dead bone trying to be removed |