Prioritizing patients for hip fracture surgery: the role of frailty and cardiac risk

Prioritizing patients for hip fracture surgery: the role of frailty and cardiac risk

IntroductionThe number of patients with hip fractures continues to rise as the average age of the population increases. Optimizing outcomes in this cohort is predicated on timely operative repair. The aim of this study was to determine if patients with hip fractures who are frail or have a higher ca...

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Main Authors: Maximilian Peter Forssten, Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Ioannis Ioannidis, Marcelo A. F. Ribeiro, Yang Cao, Babak Sarani, Shahin Mohseni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Surgery
Subjects:
hip fracture
frailty
cardiac risk
surgical delay
mortality
surgical prioritization
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2024.1367457/full

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