The global burden of geriatric hip fractures is enormous. From both the patient's and physicians perspective, the injury is complex. A hip fracture often changes a patients life and/or the life of the patients family permanently. From the physicians perspective, care of geriatric hip fracture patients requires a multidisciplinary team, which is led by the surgeon and which includes internists and other subspecialists within internal medicine, anesthesiologists, nurses, operating room technicians, social workers, physical therapists, and rehabilitation center coordinators and staff. Nowhere in the orthopedic literature is there a text that guides care for these complex patients from injury through recovery.
This text is the first to do so by organizing and synthesizing a large body of literature. Its main themes include pre-operative, operative, and post-operative care of the patient who sustains a geriatric hip fracture. Its main objective is to organize the current body of literature into a cohesive whole so that the busy orthopedic surgeon does not have to undertake a literature search each time he or she wants an answer to the myriad questions that characterize a patients injury, treatment, and recovery course. With regard to pedagogy, because orthopedic surgeons in training will utilize this book, and because the case study is the central pedagogical tool in the field of orthopedic surgery, this book includes case studies within each chapter, with the authors preferred treatment and decision-making rationale for each case. Selected video supplements reinforce real-world application of knowledge.
Practicing orthopedic surgeons, as well as orthopedic residents and fellows in training, will find Geriatric Hip Fractures: A Practical Approach a highly useful and informative resource.
Introduction: History of Geriatric Hip Fracture Treatment.- Initial
Workup, Diagnosis, and Fracture Classification for Geriatric Hip
Fractures.- Peri-operative Medical Co-management of Patients with Geriatric
Hip Fractures.- Applied Anatomy for Treatment of Geriatric Hip
Fractures.- Surgical Treatment of Peritrochanteric Hip Fractures.- Surgical
Treatment of Femoral Neck Fractures.- Periprosthetic Femur Fractures after
Total Hip Arthroplasty.- Pathologic Hip Fractures in the Geriatric
Patient.- Outcome Assessment and Quality Improvement for Geriatric Hip
Fractures.- Rehabilitation After Geriatric Hip Fractures.- Post-Operative
Bone Mineral Health Optimization in the Geriatric Patient.- Geriatric Hip
Fracture Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Geriatric Hip Fractures:
Economics of Care.
Nicholas C. Danford, MD, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA Justin K. Greisberg, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Charles M. Jobin, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA Melvin P. Rosenwasser, MD, Carroll Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA Marcella D. Walker, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
