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  • Trauma Care
  • Geriatric Medicine

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  • Hip fractures are a leading cause of hospital admission in orthopaedics.
  • Surgical failure in hip fracture cases elevates morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Identify risk factors for surgical complications in hip fracture surgery.
  • Determine the timing of these complications.
  • Assess the impact of complications on patient mortality.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a prospectively collected database of 795 hip fractures (July 2007-June 2008).
  • Identification of all surgical and non-surgical complications.
  • Tracking of re-operations and mortality for 4 years post-surgery.

Main Results:

  • 6.9% of patients experienced surgical complications requiring intervention.
  • Younger age, smoking, and cannulated screw fixation were identified as risk factors.
  • Cannulated screw fixation showed a 30.9% re-operation rate.
  • Post-operative medical complications occurred in 21.8% of patients, associated with 78.5% 4-year mortality.

Conclusions:

  • Mechanical failure was the primary cause for cannulated screw re-operations.
  • Hip hemiarthroplasty failures were most often due to infection.
  • Inter-trochanteric and sub-trochanteric fracture fixation demonstrated low failure rates.
  • Post-operative medical complications, unlike surgical ones, correlated with increased mortality.