Bone Fractures Scenarios

A 95 year old patient has an accidental fall while going to the bathroom without assistance. It appears the patient has sustained a bone fracture to the right leg. The leg’s shape is deformed and the patient is unable to move it. The patient is alert and oriented but in pain. What will you do FIRST after confirming the patient is safe and stable?

• Apply an ice pack covered with a towel to the site.

• Immobilize the fracture with a splint.

• Administer pain medication.

• Elevate the extremity above heart level.

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

• compression
• simple
• compound
• spiral

 a fracture in which the bone breaks diagonally. 

• Oblique Fracture
• Fracture
• Diagonal Fracture
• Horizontal Fracture 

Bone breaks into many fragments.

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

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

• Greenstick Fracture
• Stable Fracture
• Bluestick Fracture
• Comminuted Fracture 

Tissue that connects bone to bone

• Ligament
• Tendon
• Cartilage
• Muscle

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

• Compound Fracture
• Stable Fracture
• Kevin Ware
• Horse

What kind of fracture is shown in the picture?

• Open or compound
• Closed or simple

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