Review Question - QID 2195

A 9-year-old girl presents to the emergency department after a MVC. She was found to have an initial GCS of 3 at the scene of the accident but improved to a GCS of 12 on arrival to the trauma bay. She is found to have a closed head injury and a right transverse femoral shaft fracture, shown in Figure A. Shortly after her arrival to the hospital, she is cleared for surgery and brought to the operating room for intramedullary nailing of her femur fracture using flexi nails (Figure B). Compared to delayed treatment, early treatment of the patient's femur fracture is most likely to lead to which of the following outcomes?