The Psychological Health of Patients and Their Caregivers
Areas Staging Patient 1 2 3 4 5 Quality of life X X X Fear of falling X Pain X X Activities of daily living X X X Delirium X…
Management of Older People with Hip Fractures in China and India: A Systems Approach to Bridge Evidence-Practice Gaps
JSTH % UK NHFD 2012 % Admission to orthopaedics ward* n = 780 n = 59,365 4 h N/A 50 24 h 66 100 >24 h 34 0 Admission…
Multi Professional Team: Coordination and Communication
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Paolo Falaschi and David R. Marsh (eds.)OrthogeriatricsPractical Issues in Geriatrics10.1007/978-3-319-43249-6_11 11. Multi Professional Team: Coordination and Communication David R. Marsh1 (1) University College London, London, UK David R. Marsh Email: d.marsh@ucl.ac.uk The…
Rehabilitation Following Hip Fracture
Fig. 10.1 Interactions between the components of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework (Source: WHO 2001 [9]) 10.2 What Is Known About…
Epidemiology of Hip Fracture and Social Costs
Fig. 2.1 Age-standardised hip fracture incidence rates (/100,000) for some representative countries Regarding the site usually affected by hip fracture, in the United States, femoral neck and intertrochanteric fractures are…
The Orthogeriatric Approach: Progress Worldwide
Fig. 1.1 The memorandum of understanding, signed by the presidents of BOA and BGS in 2007 The weight of professional opinion represented by the combination of these two national associations…
Orthogeriatric Anaesthesia
Fig. 7.1 Timeline of functional capacity after hip fracture with traditional anaesthetic care (blue line) vs proactive multidisciplinary care (red line) The preoperative phase describes the period from fracture to…
Osteoporosis in Elderly Patients
Age Female sex Low body-mass index Previous fragility fracture, particularly of the hip, wrist and spine Parental history of hip fracture Glucocorticoid treatment (≥5 mg prednisolone daily or equivalent for…
Pre-Operative Management
Physical activity METs Sitting reading/watching television 1.0 Washing and dressing 2.1 Walking slowly on flat 2.3 Gentle housework 2.5 Walking a small dog (3 km//h) 2.7 Light static cycling/Bowling 3.0…
Examination of the Upper Limb
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Electronic supplementary material The online version of this chapter (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39694-1_23) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users….
