ALLMedicine Hip Fracture Center

May 24th, 2020 - Fracture neck of femur (hip fracture) is a very common problem among old age group. Such elderly patients usually have some comorbidities for which they may use anti-platelet therapy (such as clopidogrel, aspirin, or others) for long duration (chr...

May 24th, 2020 - End-stage renal disease (ESRD) leads to multiple systemic effects and patients suffer from multiple comorbidities including fractures. While previous studies have examined complications following hip fracture surgery in ESRD patients, there are no...

May 23rd, 2020 - China is facing more and more enormous challenges including aging, the increase of social security costs and health care cost, decrease of labors, and how to keep elders' capacity to function well and live independently. Healthy aging has become a...

May 22nd, 2020 - Geriatric hip fracture patients are susceptible to the adverse effects of opioid-induced analgesia. Fascia iliaca blocks (FIBs) have emerged as an analgesic technique for this population. There are limited data on a preoperative FIB's effect on pe...

May 22nd, 2020 - Fragility fractures among the older adult population are common, costly, and one of the top acute care facility diagnoses for this age group. Approximately 150,000 older adults in the United States are admitted to a hospital for treatment of a fra...

Sep 9th, 2019 - Background: Whether health outcomes of menopausal estrogen therapy differ between women with and without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) is unknown. Objective: To examine estrogen therapy outcomes by BSO status, with additional stratificati...

Nov 14th, 2018 - Osteoporosis is defined as low bone mineral density caused by altered bone microstructure ultimately predisposing patients to low-impact, fragility fractures. Osteoporotic fractures lead to a significant decrease in quality of life, with an increa...

Aug 6th, 2018 - A previous fracture increases the risk of subsequent fractures [1], even when the previous fracture is considered to be “traumatic” [2]. Since the correlation between prior fracture and future fractures is robust and at least partially independent.

Jul 31st, 2018 - Liposomal bupivacaine (LB) has demonstrated efficacy in improving pain scores and reducing opioid consumption across a variety of surgical settings, including orthopaedic surgery. However, meticulous infiltration techniques combined with a multimo.

Jun 27th, 2018 - By 2020, approximately 12.3 million individuals in the United States older than 50 years are expected to have osteoporosis. Osteoporotic fractures, particularly hip fractures, are associated with limitations in ambulation, chronic pain and disabil...

May 24th, 2020 - Fracture neck of femur (hip fracture) is a very common problem among old age group. Such elderly patients usually have some comorbidities for which they may use anti-platelet therapy (such as clopidogrel, aspirin, or others) for long duration (chr...

May 24th, 2020 - End-stage renal disease (ESRD) leads to multiple systemic effects and patients suffer from multiple comorbidities including fractures. While previous studies have examined complications following hip fracture surgery in ESRD patients, there are no...

May 23rd, 2020 - China is facing more and more enormous challenges including aging, the increase of social security costs and health care cost, decrease of labors, and how to keep elders' capacity to function well and live independently. Healthy aging has become a...

May 22nd, 2020 - Geriatric hip fracture patients are susceptible to the adverse effects of opioid-induced analgesia. Fascia iliaca blocks (FIBs) have emerged as an analgesic technique for this population. There are limited data on a preoperative FIB's effect on pe...

May 22nd, 2020 - Fragility fractures among the older adult population are common, costly, and one of the top acute care facility diagnoses for this age group. Approximately 150,000 older adults in the United States are admitted to a hospital for treatment of a fra...

Apr 16th, 2020 - Takeaway Chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages G3-G5 (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR],<60 ml/min) were not associated with a higher risk of subsequent major non-hip fragility fractures following a hip fracture vs eGFR >60 mL/min. CKD sta...

Feb 14th, 2020 - The risk of hip fracture was higher among patients treated with tramadol for chronic noncancer pain than among those treated with other commonly used NSAIDs in a large population-based cohort in the United Kingdom. iStock/Thinkstock The incidence.

Feb 13th, 2020 - An accelerated path to surgery after hip fracture did not improve mortality or major complications, according to a new international randomized trial. However, a fast track to surgery hastened mobilization, weight-bearing, and hospital discharge,.

Feb 13th, 2020 - An accelerated path to surgery after hip fracture did not improve mortality or major complications, according to a new international randomized trial. However, a fast track to surgery hastened mobilization, weight-bearing, and hospital discharge,.

Feb 10th, 2020 - Older patients treated with the pain medication tramadol show significant increases in the risk of hip fracture compared with those using codeine or commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), new research shows. "Considering the ...