Elderly patients with unstable ankle fractures could avoid surgery

Elderly patients with unstable ankle fractures could avoid surgery, according to research funded by the NIHR HTA Programme.The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compared surgery to pin a broken ankle with a new plaster cast technique known as ‘close contact casting’.Researcher Professor Keith Willett, of the University of Oxford said:...

Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - October 12, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news