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Emergency Department Pain Management Following Implementation of a Geriatric Hip Fracture Program [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction: Over 300,000 patients in the United States sustain low-trauma fragility hip fractures annually. Multidisciplinary geriatric fracture programs (GFP) including early, multimodal pain management reduce morbidity and mortality. Our overall goal
Casey, Scott D, Hirsch, Calvin H, Mumma, Bryn E, Slee, Christina, Stevenson, Dane E, Tyler, Katren, Wolinsky, Philip R   +6 more
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Prospective randomised study comparing screw versus helical blade in the treatment of low-energy trochanteric fractures [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare femoral head placement, rates of reoperation and cephalic implant cut-out of a screw versus a blade for patients over age 60 with low energy trochanteric fractures (AO/OTA 31-A1, A2, and A3) treated ...
Hoffmeyer, Pierre, Lübbeke, Anne, Miozzari, Hermes, Stern, Richard, Suva, Domizio   +4 more
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Reproducibilty of partial weight bearing [PDF]

Objectives: To find out whether partial weight bearing can be reproduced and retained. Design: In vivo experiment in normal subjects. Intervention: Training for partial weight bearing (25% of body weight) using bathroom scales.
Doyle, J, Jones, R K, Malviya, A, Richards, Jim, Udwadia, A   +4 more
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Does short-term weekly teriparatide improve healing in unstable intertrochanteric fractures?

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2018
Slow recovery after hip fracture has been associated with negative consequences. Thus, there is medical need to improve healing and functional recovery after intertrochanteric fracture. The aim of this study was to measure whether short-term teriparatide
Seung-Ju Kim, Hyun-Soo Park, Dong-Woo Lee, Jae-Won Lee   +3 more
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Psychiatric illness predicts poor outcome after surgery for hip fracture: a prospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2000
Background. Hip fracture is common in the elderly. Previous studies suggest that psychiatric illness is common and predicts poor outcome, but have methodological weaknesses. Further studies are required to address this important issue. Methods.
Holmes, J., House, A.
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Fall-Related Injuries in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Qom Province, Iran, 2010-2012 [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Falls and related injuries are common health problems in the elderly. Fractures, brain and internal organ injuries and death are the common consequences of the falls, which result in dependence, decreased self-efficacy, fear of falling ...
Gilasi, H.R., Soori, H., Taheri Tenjani, P., Yazdani, S.   +3 more
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Risk Factors Associated with Dislocation after Bipolar Hemiarthroplasty in Elderly Patients with Femoral Neck Fracture [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose: We investigated the incidence and time of dislocation and other factors associated with dislocation of bipolar hemiarthroplasty related to the treatment of femoral neck fracture in old age patients.
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Predictive value of new inflammatory response markers for lower extremity deep venous thrombosis after intertrochanteric fracture surgery in elderly patients

Huli yanjiu, 2022
ObjectiveTo develop a new inflammatory response marker score based on NLR，PLR，LMR，MHR and construct Nomogram model to predict lower extremity deep venous thrombosis（DVT） risk after intertrochanteric fracture surgery in the elderly.Methods315 elderly ...
HU Jianhua, HUANG Jie, XIAO Ying, CHENG Xirong, LIU Wen, XIONG Chunhong, LI Yong, LI Hui, YU Hong   +8 more
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Risk Factors for Anterior Cortical Impingement of Short Cephalomedullary Nail in Chinese Elderly Patients with Intertrochanteric Fracture

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2020
Shaobo Nie,* Ming Li,* Jiantao Li, Yanpeng Zhao, Xiang Cui, Gaoxiang Xu, Licheng Zhang, Wei Zhang, Peifu Tang Department of Orthopedics, The First Medical Centre, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Orthopedics, Sports ...
Nie S, Li M, Li J, Zhao Y, Cui X, Xu G, Zhang L, Zhang W, Tang P   +8 more
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Concomitant posterior hip dislocation, ipsilateral intertrochanteric- and proximal tibial- fractures with popliteal artery injury: a challenging trauma mélange

Clinics and Practice, 2015
Constellation of ipsilateral posterior hip dislocation, intertrochanteric- and proximal tibial fracture with popliteal artery injury is rare. Management of this presentation is challenging.
Pranit N. Chotai, Nabil A. Ebraheim, Ryan Hart, Andrew Wassef   +3 more
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