Certificate For Children And Young

Certificate for children and young people workforce Level 2
CU 1511 Managing paediatric Illness and injury
1.1 Describe the common types of fractures

Common Fractures
Closed fracture
In this fracture the bone breaks but does not damage the skin.
Open fractures or compound fractures
This means the broken bone is sticking out of the skin.
Hairline fractures
This means that the line of breaking is extremely fine, sometimes hard to see even in x ray.
Greenstick fracture
Only one side of bone breaks and the other side stays intact. Usually happens in children as children have flexible bones.
Simple fracture
This is a single crack across the bone.
Complex fracture
These fractures are hard to heal because the surface of the bones are very hard to come together. These fractures are caused by spinning movement of usually long bones for example thigh bone.
Comminute fracture
The bone breaks in to small fragments.
Impacted fracture
At the point where the bone breaks some of the fragments of the broken bone go into the other bone, this is called impacted fracture.

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