Medical complications of surgery: an orthogeriatrician's perspective

Hip fracture is one of the most common admission diagnoses in the UK, accounting for>75,000 hospital admissions per year in England and Wales. Fractured neck of femur can be classified as a ‘frailty’ presentation because of an average age of>80 years, a clear association with ‘pathological falls’, including syncope, and a high number of co-morbidities. The combination of traumatic injury, frailty and surgery presents significant challenges to the managing team and requires a multidisciplinary approach to reduce the risk of perioperative complications, most commonly p ostoperative delirium, sepsis, cardiac complications, stroke and metabolic disturbance.
Source: Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tags: Acute medicine I Source Type: research