Predisposing Factors: Precipitating Factors:

 Age – 9 years old  Boy’s behavior

 Gender - Male  Boy’s family’s behavior
 Truck driver’s behavior
Family

MVA

Stress placed on a bone, exceeds the

bone ability to absorb it

Injury to the bones Pain

Disruption in the
continuity of bone

Disruption of
muscle and blood
vessels attached to
the end of the
bones

Soft tissue damage

Bleeding  Hypovolemia
 Hypotension due to
severe blood loss
Hematoma  Tachycardia
 Fatigue, weakness in
the affected
Bone tissue surrounding
extremities
the fracture dies

Inflammatory Response

Pathophysiology: Fracture