bone fracture
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Complications
- any fracture in women > 50 years increases risk of subsequent fracture (RR=1.5)[2]
- ventilator-associated pneumonia after motor vehicle accident with multiple fractures
- not a risk factor for Pseudomonas pneumonia[3]
Management
- early repair of displaced fractures tends to result in better outcomes
- delay surgical repair for at least 4-6 weeks after myocardial infarction[1]
- immobilization for non-displaced fractures
- exceptions: hip fracture
- low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to stimulate bone healing not recommended
- screening for osteoporosis if fragility fracture[3]
* see risk of fracture or[2] for risk calculator
More general terms
More specific terms
- ankle fracture
- calcaneus fracture
- closed fracture
- elbow fracture
- femoral fracture; fracture of the femur (hip fracture)
- fibular fracture
- hand fracture
- humeral fracture
- malunion of fracture
- mandibular fracture
- metatarsal fracture
- minimal trauma (pathologic, osteoporotic, fragility, insufficiency) fracture
- nonunion (malunion) of fracture
- open fracture; compound fracture
- Pel-Epstein fever
- pelvic fracture
- radial fracture
- rib fracture
- skull fracture (cranial fracture)
- sternal fracture
- stress fracture (fatigue fracture)
- tarsal fracture
- tibial fracture
- toe fracture
- ulnar fracture
- vertebral fracture; spine fracture
Additional terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8) Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Crandall CJ et al. Risk of subsequent fractures in postmenopausal women after nontraumatic vs traumatic fractures. JAMA Intern Med 2021 Jun 7; [e-pub]. PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34096979 PMCID: PMC8185628 (available on 2022-06-07) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2780745
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 20 American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2025
- ↑ Foundation for Osteoporosis Research an Education (FORE) 10 Year Fracture Risk Calculator https://riskcalculator.fore.org