Fragility fractures: Preoperative, perioperative and postoperative management

Current Orthopaedic Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 482-489

  Streubel, Philipp N ^a   Ricci, William M ^a   Gardner, Michael J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone fracture; Delirium; Internal fracture fixation; Keywords arthroplasty; Malnutrition; Osteoporosis; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FONDAPARINUX; HALOPERIDOL; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

AGING; ANEMIA; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 70349249410     PISSN: 19407041     EISSN: 19417551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCO.0b013e3181b3a384     Document Type: Review

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