Question: Four Weeks Ago, Steven Jacobs Sustained An Open Fracture When He Fell 15 Feet To The Ground. He Had Been Trimming Tree Limbs Damaged By A Recent Storm When His Ladder Toppled And He Fell Onto A Muddy, Rocky Patch. Morgan Had Debridement And Open Reduction And External Fixation For A Broken Upper Arm And Was Released. However, He Returned 5 Days Later …

Four weeks ago, Steven Jacobs sustained an open fracture when he fell 15 feet to the ground. He had been trimming tree limbs damaged by a recent storm when his ladder toppled and he fell onto a muddy, rocky patch. Morgan had debridement and open reduction and external fixation for a broken upper arm and was released. However, he returned 5 days later with renewed pain, redness, swelling, and a fever. His physician ordered plain X-ray images and a culture of the abscess on his arm. Both the X-ray image and the culture indicated an infection of the bone and bone marrow at the site of the fracture. What is Morgan’s diagnosis? [ Select] Which bone did Morgan break? [Select] [Select] fixation involves the insertion of pins through the bone that are attached to a steel rod outside of the limb.