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SGallaher96

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Your secondary assessment of a patient who is complaining of pain in his right leg reveals an opening in the skin where the fractured tibia broke through the skin and retreated back into the leg. You would recognize this injury as a(n):
 
  a. open fracture.
  b. closed fracture.
  c. laceration.
  d. partial fracture.

Question 2

Which of the following signs has the potential for the most immediate life-threatening consequences?
 
  a. Deformity of the femur
  b. An open fracture of the forearm
  c. Dislocation of two fingers
  d. Crepitus in the mid-humerus



Tonyam972

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a



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