Post-Discharge Symptomatic Thromboembolic Events in Hip Fracture Patients

Abstract

Suspected thromboembolic events constitute a major proportion of unplanned referrals back to the hospital. Three deaths due to delayed pulmonary embolism may justify prolonged universal chemoprophylaxis following hip fracture surgery.

Risk of hospitalisation and death due to bone fractures after breast cancer: a registry-based cohort study

“…Hip fractures in particular are also associated with potentially severe complications like deep vein thrombosis, pressure ulcers, and pulmonary embolism, whereas vertebral fractures can affect pulmonary function (Schlaich et al , 1998; Margolis et al , 2003; Anand and Buch, 2007; Nakase et al , 2009). Our findings showed an increased overall mortality in breast cancer patients following hospitalisation with bone fracture that was interestingly independent of other comorbidities and tumour characteristics (Table 3).…”

Femoral Neck Stress Fracture Complicated by Deep Venous Thrombosis and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Case Report

“…The development of a DVT in an outpatient after 3 days of non–weight bearing is unusual. There are reports in the literature of DVT formation after lower extremity fractures including hip [4] and ankle fracture [5], but, no other reported cases in the literature of DVT formation after treatment of a stress fracture in the outpatient setting could be identified. A hypercoagulable workup did not reveal any factor or genetic abnormality that could account for the formation of a DVT.…”

Scoping review of potential quality indicators for hip fracture patient care

“…[34][35][36][37][38] Without measures of quality of care in the postacute period for patients with hip fracture, frontline staff, administrators and policymakers are left without required information to assess the delivery of care during the postsurgical rehabilitation period. 39 40 The objective of this study is to synthesise the evidence on existing or potential quality of care indicators for the acute period, the postacute period and across the entire continuum of care for patients following a hip fracture.…”