Critical Medicine and Treatment

Classification

The fracture classification methods are various, and depend on the type of break bones or body area affected, as well as other associated factors. They can be classified according to etiology in “pathological”, “traumatic”, “running fatigue or stress” and “obstetric”.

Exhibition

Depending on whether the fracture communicates with the outside world or not, are classified as:

1. Closed, if the tip of the fracture is not associated with skin breakdown, or if there is injury, it does not communicate with the outside.
2. Open or exposed, if there is a wound that the fracture communicates with the outside through it allowing the passage of pathogens from the skin or the outside.

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