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Is called a fracture to a broken bone or a bone discontinuity (crack). The mechanisms capable of producing fractures are of two types, one that locates the fracture live right at the point of impact and an indirect trauma, fracturing a distance from the point of impact. In general, we can classify the fractures into two groups:

Open
Are those in which there is a wound that communicates with the fracture with or without exposure of bone involved. Have a high level of contamination and infection may therefore very well should be disinfected the wound, controlling bleeding (using a pressure bandage), isolating the wound by covering it with sterile gauze and finally freeze as in closed fractures.
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