Clinical-epidemiologic variables in patients operated of hip fractures.José R.López" Provincial Hospital in Matanzas province

Authors

  • Pavel Amigo Castañeda HOSPITAL PROVINCIAL CLÍNICO- QUIRÚRGICO "JOSÉ R.LÓPEZ TABRANE". MATANZAS.
  • Rolando Reguera Rodríguez HOSPITAL PROVINCIAL CLÍNICO- QUIRÚRGICO "JOSÉ R.LÓPEZ TABRANE". MATANZAS.
  • Caridad Castañeda Gueimonde HOSPITAL PROVINCIAL CLÍNICO- QUIRÚRGICO "JOSÉ R.LÓPEZ TABRANE". MATANZAS.
  • Maylín Rodríguez Díaz HOSPITAL PROVINCIAL CLÍNICO- QUIRÚRGICO "JOSÉ R.LÓPEZ TABRANE". MATANZAS.

Keywords:

FRACTURAS DE CADERA, ACCIDENTES POR CAIDAS, ANCIANO, HUMANO

Abstract

An applied descriptive and longitudinal study was carried out to patients who had been surgically intervened of hip fractures having the general objective to distinguish the clinical epidemiologic variables of patients studied.The study included 400 patients with a prevailance of females (63,5%) and white (83%) and an average age of 76,6 years old.The most frequent personal and pathologi antecedents were arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus.There was a predominance of extracapsular fracture(69,3%) and in the left hip(52,8%).Surgical duration time was 1,2 hours; osteosynthesis with plate 130 and with screw(56%).
Just 16,3% of the cases became complicated,with bronchopneumonia the most frequent medical complication(6%) and celulitis the most frequent surgical one(2,8%).The mean preoperative hospital stay was 41;46 hours,the mean postperative stay was 4,13 days and the total was 5,85 days,and 2,8% the mortality rate.

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Amigo Castañeda P, Reguera Rodríguez R, Castañeda Gueimonde C, Rodríguez Díaz M. Clinical-epidemiologic variables in patients operated of hip fractures.José R.López" Provincial Hospital in Matanzas province. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Feb. 20 [cited 2025 Apr. 24];27(5):280-8. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/240

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Vol. 27 No. 5 (2005)

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Research article

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