Geriatric hip fractures : a practical approach
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The global burden of geriatric hip fractures is enormous. From both the patient's and physician's perspective, the injury is complex. A hip fracture often changes a patient's life and/or the life of the patient's family permanently. From the physician's 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. This text organizes and synthesizes a large body of literature for the specific requirements of geriatric hip fracture care.