NUR 631 Ortho
- Complete healing of a bone fracture occurs when
Answer the callus has been completely replaced with mature bone
- Rickets is characterized by soft, weak bones resulting from a deficiency of
Answer Vitamin D
- In older women, osteoporosis is thought to be primarily because of
Answer estro- gen deficiency
- Pain with passive stretching of a muscle is indicative of
Answer noncontractile tissue injury
- Muscular dystrophy includes a number of muscle disorders that are
Answer genetically transmitted
- Myasthenia gravis is an auto-immune disease in which
Answer acetylcholine receptors are destroyed or dysfunctional
- Anticholinesterase inhibitors may be used to manage
Answer Myasthenia gravis
- A type I open fracture is best described as a bone that is 1 / 2
Broken and protruding through the skin
- The complication, which is not likely to result from an open, transverse fracture of the tibia
and fibula is
Answer air embolus
- Assessment of an extremity six hours after surgical alignment and casting demonstrates
pulselessness and pallor. The priority action to take is
Answer Initiate action to have the cast split or removed
- Following a bone fracture, the earliest likely event to occur is
Answer Development of a blood clot beneath the peristeum
- Bone healing may be impaired by
Answer Nicotine use
- A unique characteristic feature of fibromyalgia is the presence of
Answer tender point pain
- A fracture in which bone breaks into two or more fragments is referred to as
Answer Comminuted
- What type of fracture generally occurs in children?
Answer Greenstick
- Most muscle strains are caused by
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