2009 The Effect of Time-to-Surgery on Outcome in Elderly Patients With Proximal Femoral Fractures Medscape

Description: Background: Whether reducing time-to-surgery for elderly patients suffering from hip fracture results in better outcomes remains subject to controversial debates.
Conclusion: Although this study found a trend toward more frequent post-operative complications in the longest time-to-surgery group, there was no effect of time-to-surgery on mortality. Shorter time-to-surgery may be associated with somewhat lower rates of post-operative complications such as decubitus ulcers, urinary tract infections, thromboses, pneumonia and cardiovascular events, and with somewhat higher rates of others such as post-operative bleeding or implant complications.
Rüdiger Smektala; Heinz G. Endres; Burkhard Dasch; Christoph Maier; Hans J. Trampisch; Felix Bonnaire; Ludger Pientka from From BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009 (full text)