A systematic review found a lower rate of bleeding with aspirin compared with anticoagulants after hip fracture repair and a trend toward lower rates of bleeding after lower extremity arthroplasty.44 In contrast, a recent meta-analysis that included 13 RCTs showed no difference in rates of ...
Patients who underwent hip fracture surgery with general anaesthesia had a higher risk of thirty-day complications as compared to patients who underwent hip fracture repair with spinal anaesthesia. Surgeons should consider using spinal anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery....
Revision (ICD-9) code for hip fracture or (2) a surgeon’s charge for operative hip fracture repair (Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 27230–27248) supported with either (a) a second surgeon’s charge within 2 days or (b) a supporting ICD-9 procedure code for hip fracture. We...