Click here to know more Hip With over 50 years of clinical history, MicroPort®Orthopedics has extensive experience in all aspects of Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA). We offer a full range of acetabular systems and femoral stems in various styles and philosophies to complement our range of innovat...
An orthogeriatrician-led unit can deal with the preoperative and complex postoperative medical, social, ethical, physical, and mental health issues that are associated with ‘hip fracture syndrome’, providing structured standardised evidence-based care by trained staff. This could be the model of ...
While the standard model of the Helix Midnight only has two reinforced edges, the Midnight Luxe has reinforcement on all four sides. When sitting and sleeping directly on the edge of the bed, I felt supported and lifted. I didn’t notice a concerning amount of sinkage and never felt at ...
Hip fractures have been used as a “tracer condition” to monitor healthcare response when designing clinical and organizational improvements in the quality and effectiveness of care for older populations [5]. Quality indicators for hip fracture care, such as length of stay (LOS) and hospital read...
Standard of care We selected a group of patients attended in our hospital for hip fracture in the first quarter of 2015 in whom FLS activity stopped owing to sick leave of the nurse. The purpose of the control group was only to have a reference of the real practice in our health area ...
The patient populations came from different clinical settings (Emergency Department [ED] patients in Australia versus ED, inpatients, and outpatients at Mount Sinai Health System [MSHS] New York City [NYC]). Among the Sinai ED patients, the fracture rate was 4%, a one-third of Adelaide’s ...
People who fracture their hip sometimes need surgery to fix the fracture or replace the hip. Surgeries Your doctor might recommend surgery if osteoarthritis becomes so severe that the pain is intense, if the hip joint becomes deformed, or if you have a hip fracture. The most common surgery ...
Setting Tertiary care center. Subjects Five consecutive patients referred for evaluation of acute onset of limping between January 1990 and December 1997. Intervention All clinical and imaging data were collected. Results Two of the 5 patients were initially diagnosed as having osteomyelitis and 3 as ...
7. Taoka T, Ohmori T, Kanazawa T, Delayed surgery after hip fracture affects the incidence of venous thromboembolism: J Orthop Surg Res, 2023; 18; 630 8. O’Connor MI, Switzer JA, AAOS Clinical Practice Guideline Summary: Management of hip fractures in older adults: J Am Acad Orthop Su...
Short-stay programmes have been successfully implemented in the United States (US) and some European countries [11,12] yet they remain underutilised in Australia [9,13]. Systematic reviews have found that short-stay programmes for THR and KR are associated with reduced healthcare and patient cos...