Fracture Complete

A complete fracture, or complete fracture, is a term used to describe a serious injury in which the bone tissue is completely destroyed. Fractures of this degree rarely occur in everyday life in healthy people; they are more often a complication of severe injuries (for example, car accidents, falls from a height), and also arise due to failures in the biomechanics of the joint, leading to excessive force on the articular area.

Complete fractures are sometimes divided into two groups: open and closed. Open fractures are accompanied by a violation of the integrity of the skin (bone fragments entering the surrounding tissue) and bleeding. Closed fractures do not have these symptoms. The patient's condition with open fractures is more severe, and there is a high risk of blood poisoning and infections. In addition, they heal much longer. Therefore, during diagnosis and treatment, many factors must be taken into account: the patient’s age (in children, tissues grow together better and faster, and with age, so-called “bone aging” occurs), the degree of the disease, the presence of concomitant diseases (fractures heal poorly in diabetics, alcoholics, etc. .), the severity of the moment of injury (if the leg was broken 20 minutes ago, the treatment will be radically different from the case when the victim is 8 hours old). Therefore, the diagnosis of a fracture takes a long time, and accordingly, patients are in this condition for a long time before they can be discharged.

Healing a complete fracture is a difficult task - it requires increased attention and qualified assistance from medical workers. It takes place in several stages:

1. Preparatory stage (7-14 days), during which primary surgical treatment of the damaged area is performed, removal of fragments and identification of hidden (not immediately visible) damage to the skin, muscles and bones underneath. All this must happen under general anesthesia and, depending on the individual characteristics of the body, proceeds differently: some do not feel pain either during or after the operation, others require long-term rehabilitation. 2. The decompression stage, also known as the postoperative stage, lasts approximately 6 weeks. The main task of this period is to improve blood circulation at the fracture site. To do this, the surrounding tissues are treated with special antiseptic agents (before they dry) and tightly bandaged with bandages.