Hip fracture in elderly and COVID-19 infection. Report of 3 cases()

Since its first description in china in January 2020, COVID-19 pandemia outbreak has affected health organization and conventional care in all settings as wards, intensive care and surgery. Hip fracture patients usually are older and have a lot of comorbidities. This type of patients benefit from ea...

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Autores principales: Rabanal LLevot, J.M., Moreno Suarez, F.M., Merodio Gómez, A., Solar Herrera, A., Tejón Pérez, G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedad Española de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapéutica del Dolor. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33358246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.redare.2020.05.017
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Sumario:Since its first description in china in January 2020, COVID-19 pandemia outbreak has affected health organization and conventional care in all settings as wards, intensive care and surgery. Hip fracture patients usually are older and have a lot of comorbidities. This type of patients benefit from early surgery. However, surgery in COVID-19 patients with active infection is associate with bad outcomes and mortality. We present three patients with COVID infection undergoing hip fracture surgery. Surgery was performed tree weeks after admission. Despite have risk factor (old age, arterial hypertension, elevated inflammatory parameters) the outcome was good and were discharged from hospital without events.

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