Dr. Slobogean and Sheila Sprague, PhD, Research Director in the Department of Surgery at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, are co-principal investigators. “Hip fractures among older adults ...

Older patients who underwent hip fracture surgery with either regional anesthesia without sedation or general anesthesia ...

Dr. Slobogean and Sheila Sprague, PhD, Research Director in the Department of Surgery at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, are co-principal investigators. "Hip fractures among older adults ...

Hip fractures in elderly patients are serious injuries that can lead to immobility and death. Early surgery is thought to play an important role regarding survival. Guidelines from the United States, ...

Objectives: To determine evidence-based best practices for elderly hip fracture patients from the time of hospital admission to 6 months postfracture. Data Sources: MEDLINE, Cochrane Library ...

Led by principal investigator Joseph Patterson, MD, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in fracture care at Keck Medicine of USC, the "FASTER-Hip" trial aims to determine whether patients with a ...

RIVERBANK — A search is underway for a vehicle that hit an elderly man who was on his daily ... 84, suffered a broken arm and fractured ankle. He remains in the ICU but was stable at last ...

Clavicle fractures, or broken collarbones, are typically treated without surgery. There is some evidence, though, to suggest that clavicle fractures may heal faster and more predictably when surgical ...

Length of stay and time to surgery were decreased. Wide inclusion criteria, including also the most fragile patients. The almost complete data set with few missing data. Retrospective design. Data ...

About 1 in 4 patients who've fallen and suffered a hip fracture will require long-term care in the year after their fall. The new research looked at data on 129 women over the age of 64 who'd recently ...

When the skin around the calcaneus fracture is broken, this may represent an open fracture, also called a compound fracture. An open fracture of the calcaneus is an emergency that requires urgent ...

“Hip fracture recovery highlights the interplay between psychological and physical health, and the importance of managing both of these in order to improve meaningful outcomes,” the authors write.