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Clinical Practice Guidelines on Ordering Echocardiography Before Hip Fracture Repair Perform Differently from One Another

BACKGROUND: Osteoporotic hip fractures typically occur in frail elderly patients with multiple comorbidities, and repair of the fracture within 48 h is recommended. Pre-operative evaluation sometimes involves transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) to screen for heart disease that would alter peri-oper...

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Autores principales: Swart, Eric, Adair, Chris, Seymour, Rachel B., Karunakar, Madhav A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7749896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33376460
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11420-020-09762-8