Abstract

MARTINEZ LOPEZ, Ricardo; MORENO NAVARRO, Jorge; GOIDE LINARES, Elio  and  FERNANDEZ GARCIA, Deliana. Clinical epidemiological characterization of patients with hip fractures. MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.2, pp. 182-188. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 128 patients with hip fractures admitted to the Orthopedics and Traumatology Department at "Dr. Ambrosio Grillo" Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba from June 2008 to May 2009, in order to characterize them according to certain clinical epidemiological variates. These injuries were more frequent in the age group of 80-89 years and in female sex, with a predominance of extracapsular traumatic fractures, treated surgically with reduction and osteosynthesis in 45,3 % of patients during the first 24 hours of hospitalization. There were some complications as acute anemia and wound infection in 61,4 % of the total; however, most cases (96,9 %) were discharged alive.

Keywords : hip fracture; extracapsular traumatic fractures; osteosynthesis; acute anemia; wound infection,; Orthopedics and Traumatology Department.

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