Mortality and Life Expectancy After hip Fractures

External Fixation of Intertrochanteric Fractures of Femur in Elderly

“…Morris found extracapsular fractures to be four times more common as femoral neck fractures and to occur primarily in the elderly [7]. The average age in this series was 65 years as compared to 66-76 years reported in literature [2][3][4][5][6]. 90% of the cases were males in this series even though these fractures are more common in females [5].…”

“…The average age in this series was 65 years as compared to 66-76 years reported in literature [2][3][4][5][6]. 90% of the cases were males in this series even though these fractures are more common in females [5]. Barros et al treated 40 patients of inter trochanteric fractures with external fixation of which 32 were females [8].…”

“…The average age reported in these patients is 66 to 76 years [2][3][4][5][6]. Quite a few of these elderly patients have associated medical problems of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, ischaemic heart disease and poor general condition labelling them high risk surgical candidates for open reduction and internal fixation of their fractures.…”

Mortality after spinal and general anaesthesia for surgical fixation of hip fractures

“…Very few studies follow patients for more than a month after surgery. It is known that the mortality rate after hip fracture is higher than for the normal population of the same age group for at least 2 months after injury [6].…”

“…Increasing age [I-61 significant pre-existing medical problems [ 1,641, impaired mobility prior to injury [3,7] and confusional states [3,4,9] have been consistently correlated with increased mortality. Male sex [2,6,7], and increasing delays between injury and surgery [I] have also been claimed to be correlated with mortality but this has been disputed [5,8]. Many surgeons believe that there is a differential mortality rate dependent on the type of prosthesis used, and patients undergoing hemi-arthroplasty or total hip replacement are commonly excluded from controlled trials for this reason [l, lo].…”