Your Collarbone Might Need Surgery!! – USMLE 1

To avoid complications of a clavicle fracture. We might have to perform a surgery. Here we can see a list of indications for a surgical treatment of clavicle fracture.

So the first indication for a surgery of clavicle fracture in the list is if a bone is broken into multiple pieces.

The second is an open type of fracture, meaning that a fragment or a part of the clavicle protrudes and penetrates the skin. And that’s why it’s called an open type of fracture.