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Elderly patients at greater risk of dying from hip surgery during busy periods – News-Medical.Net
Hip fractures are serious, especially for the elderly. The operation can be a great strain, and 13 per cent of patients over the age of 70 do not survive 60 days…
Hip fractures are serious, especially for the elderly. The operation can be a great strain, and 13 per cent of patients over the age of 70 do not survive 60 days after the fracture.
Their chance of survival may depend on how busy the surgeons are with other emergency procedures.
“When the operating room is busy, 20 per cent more of the patients die within 60 days after the operation,” says Professor Johan Håkon Bjørngaard at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU) Department…
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