NUR 330 Final 3
- comminuted fracture
Answer Crushed, multiple pieces
- displaced fracture
Answer bone ends are out of normal alignment
- Non displaced fracture
Answer bone ends retain their normal position
- Greenstick fracture
Answer Splintered- often affects children
- Nonunion
Answer They are not healing correctly- do not come together
- Oblique
Answer fracture at an angle to the bone
- Impacted
Answer broken bone ends jam into each other 1 / 2
- Transverse
Answer Straight across
- Spiral fracture
Answer Encircles or "spirals" up the bone
- Fractured pelvis
Answer Blood in urine "hematuria"
- Complications of fractures
Answer Osteomyelitis (bone infection) compartment syndrome
DVT/VTE
fat embolism
- Osteomyelitis s/s
Answer fever, local signs of inflammation such as tenderness, red- ness, heat, pain, swelling, ulceration, and drainage and localized pain
- DVT/VTE s/s
Answer Warmth, swelling
- Compartment Syndrome S/S
- / 2
Answer Swelling in compartments, big leg, painful