Concept Map

Make a concept map of Lower leg Fracture.

 PATHOGENESIS & STRUCTURE CHANGES
FUNCTIONAL CHANGES
ETIOLOGY
Fractures occur in patients with decreased bone -Immobilize
-Falls
strength and who experience an injury. Thus, -Bed rest most of the time
-Accidents DIAGNOSIS
the pathophysiology of fractures encompasses -Long period of recovery
Lower leg fracture.
a multitude of factors that determine bone
strength (bone mass, bone quality, age, skeletal
A complete blood count
geometry) and the frequency, nature, and
effects of injuries.
IMAGING STUDIES AND BIOPSY:
X-ray
PREVENTION

-Always on a lookout where you are going

-Watch your step
-Be wary of your surroundings
-Always be extra careful when walking on stairs Lower leg Fracture
Definition:
It is a medical condition in which the lower leg
of a persons’ bone is broken.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

-Lower left leg unable to move
CLINICAL COURSE -inability to walk
TREATMENT
-obvious deformity
-Inflammatory Stage: When a bone breaks, the body sends out signals -swelling
-ORIF (Open reduction internal fixation) for special cells to come to the injured area. Some of these special cells
PROGNOSIS cause the injured area to become inflamed (red, swollen, and painful). -tenderness
This tells the body to stop using the injured part so it can heal. -Bruising
-Nursing Interventions. -The Reparative Stage: The reparative stage starts within about a week
Patients with fractures have different prognosis of the injury. A soft callus (a type of soft bone) replaces the blood clot
-Severe pain
depending on the severity of the damage, and that formed in the inflammatory stage. The callus holds the bone .
Medication: together, but isn't strong enough for the body part to be used. Over the
the client’s body recovery rate. next few weeks, the soft callus becomes harder. By about 2–6 weeks,
this hard callus is strong enough for the body part to be used.
-Morphine -The Remodeling Stage: The remodeling stage starts around 6 weeks
after the injury. In this stage, regular bone replaces the hard callus. If
you saw an X-ray of the healing bone, it would look uneven. But over
the next few months, the bone is reshaped so that it goes back to
looking the way it did before the injury.