Nursing Patients with Open Fractures

Abstract

The future of open fractures is "played" in the first six hours, so they must be considered "emergencies of traumas”. Special nursing care in open fractures should be applied according to the patient's general status, the local state of the traumatized limb, and the type of bracing used before surgery. Special nursing goals are the rehabilitation of joint mobility and muscle strength and recommendations for certain interdictions, designed to educate posture, static, and gait, in safe conditions and performances as close to normal as possible.