Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Off-hour” surgical start times, between 5 p.m. and 6:59 a.m., may not negatively affect outcomes of hip ...

For a frail, older adult, the risks skyrocket when the waits are longer than 48 hours. In B.C. the trend is going in the ...

In adults undergoing hip fracture surgery, neuraxial anesthesia may lead to better outcomes than general anesthesia, with ...

People living with dementia who had hip fractures treated with surgery lived longer than those who didn’t have surgery, a new study finds. Choosing to undergo surgery can be a complicated decision for ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hip fracture repair is best started about 20 hours after presentation in elderly patients on blood thinners, not immediately and not more than a day later either, a researcher said ...

A hip fracture may require hip-replacement surgery for the best outcome, particularly in older patients. Cleveland Clinic Q. Last week, my 81-year-old mother fell breaking her right hip. The ...

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

Waiting more than 4 hours in emergency care for treatment is linked to heightened risks of death and a longer hospital stay for hip fracture patients, reveals a single centre study, published online ...

Patients who received intramedullary nails (IMNs) to repair trochanteric fractures reported no difference in health-related quality of life compared with those who received sliding hip screws (SHS), ...

Older adults experience significant risk of death and institutionalization after hip-fracture surgery, according to a December study published in MDPI. Researchers analyzed data from 355 patients ages ...

During your initial knee or hip replacement surgery, the prosthetic (artificial) components were either cemented (attached with bone cement) or hammered into the bone so they could eventually attach ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he underwent surgery to repair a hip fracture Wednesday, tweeting that "(I'm) on my way to a full recovery." Grassley's staff announced Tuesday that he had injured his ...