Behavior of patients chosen for emergency surgery due to hip fracture

Abstract

Introduction: caring for the elderly patient with hip fracture requires an analysis of systematic sequences and adds value to each of the actions, with the aim at reducing the variability of clinical practice and improving the quality of caring for these patients.
Objective: To characterize patients canceled and intervened as an emergency due to hip fracture.
Method: A quasiexperimental study was carried out with a single group in the patients chosen for emergency surgery due to hip fracture, at Manuel Ascunce Domenech University Hospital of Camagüey Province and in the period from January 1 to December 31, 2014. 204 patients were studied and divided into two groups: at ages under 60 and 60 years or older.
Results: the female sex predominated as aged 60 years and older in 119 patients intervened due to hip fracture, the probability of extracapsular fracture had an odds ratio of 17, extracapsular fracture was represented by 124, hospital stay ranged up to six days for patients intervened and for those who were cancelled their operation, up to 15 days. The mortality of canceled patients is in connection with severe sepsis.
Conclusion: Patients who were performed emergency surgery due to hip fracture were classified as high surgical-anesthetic risk and admitted under the alive condition.