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What type of injury involves an open wound where the bone has torn through the skin?
Open Fracture formerly known as a compound fracture.
What type of fracture has a bone portruding from the skin?
Open....It's called an OPEN FRACTURE.
What is a open skull fracture?
When a fracture is associated with a laceration or cut in the area of the fracture, it is called an open fracture
What is the medical term meaning open fracture?
Compound fracture is a medical term meaning a bone fracture with a break in the nearby skin.
What is the fracture with an open wound?
What's a fracture with an open wound
What type of fracture has bone protruding throughskin?
A compound fracture is when a bone protrudes through the skin.
A fracture in which a broken bone pokes through the skin?
Its referred to as a compound fracture or open fracture. See the related link for more information.
What is the medical term meaning Fracture with an open wound?
An open fracture, also called a compound fracture, is a broken bone with an open skin wound.
What is a simple fracture and a compound fracture?
a fracture in which skin is intact at site of fracture is a closed fracture or simple fracture whereas compound fracture or an open fracture is a fracture in which the skin is perforated and there is an open wound down to the site of the fracture.
Where do you apply pressure to an open fracture?
directly to the fracture
Does an open procedure to repair a fracture mean that the fracture was an open fracture?
No, an open procedure does not necessarily mean that a fracture was an open fracture. An open procedure only means that the fracture pieces could not be adequately stabilized for optimal healing without surgical intervention.No, somrtimes a closed fracture is best treated by surgical or open means. Installing screws or rods or plates may be necessary even though the bone never broke through the skin.
What fracture breaks the skin?
A compound fracture, the worst kind.
