ALLMedicine™ Femur Fracture Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - Electronic pathways (e-pathways) and digital systems are novel interventions with several uses in healthcare, ranging from clinical decision support systems to checklists for care delivery. Their application in the management of neck of femur (NOF...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Proximal femur fractures predominantly affect older patients and can mark a drastic turning point in their lives. To avoid complications and reduce mortality, expert associations recommend surgical treatment within 24-48 h after admission. Due to ...

Mar 12th, 2023 - Tourniquets are critical for the control of traumatic extremity hemorrhage. In this study, we sought to determine, in a rodent blast-related extremity amputation model, the impact of prolonged tourniquet application and delayed limb amputation on ...

Mar 10th, 2023 - This study developed an easy-to-use mortality prediction tool, which showed an acceptable discrimination and no significant lack of fit. The GeRi-Score was able to predict mortality and could distinguish between mild, moderate and high risk groups...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Prophylactic vancomycin treatment decreases the prevalence of surgical site and deep infections by >70% in diabetic patients undergoing reconstructive foot and ankle surgery. Thus, determining whether clinically relevant local vancomycin doses aff...

Sep 24th, 2016 - AACE = American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists AFF = atypical femur fracture ASBMR = American Society for Bone and Mineral Research BEL = best evidence level BMD = bone mineral density BTM = bone turnover marker CBC = complete blood coun...

Sep 20th, 2016 - AACE = American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists AFF = atypical femur fracture ASBMR = American Society for Bone and Mineral Research BEL = best evidence level BMD = bone mineral density BTM = bone turnover marker CBC = complete blood coun...

Feb 27th, 2023 - Significance: Severe injury is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, affecting approximately 2.8 million individuals and accounting for over 200,000 deaths annually across the United States1,2,3. Large cohort studies have demonstrated...

Feb 8th, 2023 - Study design. The present, observational, prospective study, will be conducted over a 12-month period, Population. Consecutive sampling is used to recruit aging patients (>70 years), who sustain trauma of the lower limb and underwent an orthopedic...

Jan 31st, 2023 - There is limited evidence about the comparative effectiveness of different treatments for pediatric femur fractures. The most common method used for isolated femur shaft fractures of children older than 5 years of age is elastic stable intramedull...

Jan 19th, 2023 - National, randomized, open, parallel, multicenter clinical trial of two comparison groups that will evaluate the feasibility of a strategy based on a diagnostic test to shorten the surgery time in antiaggregated patients with proximal femur fractu...

Nov 3rd, 2022 - The stratification of perioperative risk is an essential moment in the preoperative evaluation of the patient undergoing surgery especially in the setting of urgency. There is a very broad group of indexes used in the stratification of preoperativ...

Aug 19th, 2022 - After serious injury, women may fare worse than men by some measures, a new study suggests. In a nationwide sample of trauma patients, women were likelier than men to be discharged to a long-term care facility (LTF) as opposed to going home. Moreo...

Dec 20th, 2020 - Emanuela Palmerini, MD More than one-third of patients with resectable giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB) avoided surgery and nearly half had less morbidity with surgery when treated with denosumab (Xgeva), according to results of an open-label phas...

Aug 19th, 2020 - The risk of atypical fractures increased with longer duration of bisphosphonate treatment, but the absolute risk remained low, a new study showed. Looking at nearly 200,000 women ages 50 and older, Dennis Black, PhD, of the University of Californi...

Aug 19th, 2020 - The latest findings regarding the risk for atypical femur fracture (AFF) with use of bisphosphonates for osteoporosis show a significant increase in risk when treatment extends beyond 5 years. The risk is notably higher risk among Asian compared t...

Mar 14th, 2019 - Older patients who went to the emergency room (ER) for acute back pain from a nontraumatic vertebral compression fracture were rarely screened or treated for osteoporosis in a study at a single center that did not have a fracture liaison service. ...