American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Guidelines for Hip Fractures
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These studies reported better outcomes for patients in whom internal fixation was avoided as the treatment of choice. A decreased rate of reoperation among patients treated with ar...
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Previously, some surgeons have delayed surgery for hip fracture patients on Aspirin and/or clopidogrel. This systematic review suggests at worse that there is no advantage to this ...
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One high strength study (Davison et al 49) and seven moderate strength (Raia et al 74, Cornell et al 75, Jeffcote et al 76, Calder et al 60, Calder et al 77, Hedbeck et al 78, Kenz...
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Randomized controlled trials have largely failed to demonstrate differences (Deangelis et al 84, Figved et al 85), with the exception of fracture risk, which appears to be higher i...
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Five moderate and one with high strength studies evaluated the use of cephalomedullary devices in unstable intertrochanteric fractures with a separate lesser trochanteric fragment ...
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Although many studies have been done, the variability of fracture classification systems and implants used makes interpretation of the literature challenging. Evaluation of these s...
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Alternative nomenclature for the posterior approach to the hip identified in the literature includes the Southern, the posterior, the Moore or the dorsal approach. Similarly, the d...
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Six studies inclusive of 593 patients used a prospective randomized clinical trial design to assess the effect of regional analgesia in reducing preoperative pain after hip fractur...
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The work group recognizes that anesthetic techniques described in several of these articles which were published decades ago may have changed when compared with modern methods. In ...
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Seven moderate strength studies (Anderson et al 17, Finsen et al 18, Needoff et al 19, Resch et al 20, Rosen et al 21, Saygi et al 22, Yip et al 23) compared skin traction to no tr...