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Orthopaedic surgery in the elderly
1Imperial College School of Medicine, Chelsea.
Hospital Medicine (London, England : 1998)
|August 30, 2000
Abstract:
Demographic estimations for the UK predict an increase in the number of major orthopaedic surgical procedures in elderly people. The two major indications for surgery are osteoporotic fractures and severe osteoarthritis of weight-bearing joints. Coexisting medical disease makes elderly patients a surgical high-risk group, and mortality and morbidity after emergency surgery remains high.
