Compound Fracture Complications

Complications can arise with femur breaks.

Compound fracture complications. Regardless it is easy to see how a compound femur fracture creates a serious and potentially deadly situation. Complications clearly vary with fracture site and nature and with quality of surgery but many also vary with patient attributes such as. Compound femur fractures mostly occur as a result of a high impact direct blow on the thigh or any other high energy trauma like falling from a great height car crash etc. Compound fractures of toe bones or phalangeal bones occur when the toe bones undergo severe injury due to which the bone fragments or the ends of the broken bone protrude out of the skin.

You can have osteoporosis and not even know it. Know the causes signs symptoms complications and risk factors of compound. Complications of a broken leg may include. Reproduced from zalavras cg marcus re levin ls patzakis mj.

Fracture complications are often variably defined and there is a lack of consensus in their assessment which makes their incidence difficult to estimate. Bone fragments that are out of place can damage nerves arteries and veins leading to life threatening complications. Instructional course lecture 57. In fact about two thirds of spinal compression fractures are never diagnosed because many people think the back pain is just a part of.

Compound fractures are not just a type of fracture but have a completely different entity when it comes to managing their symptoms and complications. A compound femur fracture is a severe case of fracture in which the fragments of the bone penetrate though the covering skin and the soft tissues. This is particularly common in an open fracture of your tibia because of lower blood flow to this bone. Left x ray of compound fractures of tibia and fibula.

Right a rod has been placed down the center of the tibia to hold the bone fragments in place. Chronic osteomyelitis refers to an infection of the bone that can persist for many months and years. A severe leg fracture may not heal quickly or completely. Management of open fractures and subsequent complications.

Not only are they prone to develop several complications but they have some peculiar symptoms which if noted herald the onset of a multitude of interventions by several specialist surgeons. Poor or delayed healing. How is a. If the femur is not set properly there s a chance the leg will become shorter than the other one and may cause hip or knee pain many.

Knee or ankle pain. Delayed complications of compound fractures include chronic osteomyelitis delayed wound healing and nonhealing fracture. Complications of compound fractures. The injury is exposed and is visible to the eye know the causes symptoms treatment prognosis complication and diagnosis of compound fracture of toe bones.