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Hip Trauma Abstracts (6)
Abstracts on hip fractures and dislocations from proceedings of orthopaedic meetings & societies

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Avoiding Missed Femoral Neck Fractures

Location: http://www.hwbf.org/ota/am/ota04/otapa/OTA04949.htm

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OTA paper 2004: Improvement by Using a Standard Protocol in Cases of Femoral Shaft Fractures:
The purpose of this study was to describe a program of quality improvement and a subsequent protocol that have resulted in a reduction of missed femoral neck fractures in patients with femoral shaft fractures
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2000 Audit of Deep Wound Infection following Hip Fracture Surgery

Location: http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol45_1/4510010.htm

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An audit of 171 consecutive hip fractures treated surgically showed a deep wound infection rate of 3.6%. Several shortcomings in the implementation of the infection policy were identified and recommendations to eliminate them introduced. Review of the subsequent 186 patients gave a deep infection rate of 1.1%. Attention to detail...
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2003 Evidence based guidelines for fixing broken hips- an update popular

Location: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_09_031103/chi10026_fm.html

Update in eMJA of 1996 study "How best to fix broken hips" (qv) Michael N Chilov, Ian D Cameron and Lyn M March MJA 2003; 179 (9): 489-493
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Acetabular Fractures popular

Location: http://www.hwbf.org/ota/bfc/stov2/exp.htm

Acetabular Fractures: Diagnosis, Treatment, Indications, Outcome
OTA Basic Fracture Course Highly Reputable
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1999 How best to fix a broken hip

Location: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/may17/march/march.html

Full text version of article in eMJA
Objectives: To develop evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of proximal femoral fractures to optimise functional outcome while minimising length of stay in hospital.
Conclusions: Randomised controlled trial evidence (NHMRC Levels I and II) exists for many, but not all, aspects of hip fracture treatment. There...
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Acetabulum Fractures - AO Surgery Reference

Location: http://www.aofoundation.org/surgery/62

This module shows step-by-step descriptions of
  • Diagnosis
  • Patient preparation
  • Approaches
  • Reduction & fixation
  • Aftercare
 
for all acetabular fractures of the Letournel classification system.
In addition, there are videos, animations, journal articles and book chapters from AO publications
 
Authored by Keith Mayo, Pol Rommens, Carlos Sancineto, Michel Oransky, Executive editor: Peter Trafton
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Dynamic Hip Screw Failure: Should We Blame The Surgeon Or The Patient?

Location: http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijos/vol2n1/dhs.xml

Abstract Aims: To examine the roles of fracture stability, anatomical reduction and screw position on cut through failure of Dynamic Hip Screw (DHS) implants. Methods: This is a retrospective study of consecutive patients treated with a DHS implant following intertrochanteric fractures of the proximal femur. Fracture stability was assessed from fracture...
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Effect and offset of effect of treatments for hip fracture on health outcomes

Location: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10525710

The authors evaluated two hypothetical interventions to prevent hip fracture in the overall female population and in a high-risk female population. For one intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating treatment with bisphosphonates, and for the other intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating those of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).... Highly Reputable
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Femoral Head Fractures Wheeless

Location: http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/fractures_of_the_femoral_head

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics Abstract of Brumback RJ. Kenzora JE. Levitt LE. Burgess AR. Poka A. Hip. [JC:g7v] :181-206, 1987
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Femoral Neck Fractures in Young Adults

Location: http://www.hwbf.org/ota/bfc/wolin/exp.htm

Femoral neck fractures in the young adult are a different type of fracture than those seen in the elderly. These younger patients have normal bone density. A simple fall is not going to break the femoral neck. These fractures require high energy type injury mechanisms, and greater than 50% of... Expert
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Fracture of the Lesser and Greater Trochanter Wheeless

Location: http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/fractures_of_the_lesser_and_greater_trochanter

- Lesser Trochanteric Fracture:
- isolated fracture of the lesser trochanter is quite rare but may develop as a result of the avulsion force if the iliopsoas muscle;
- it occurs commonly as a component of...
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