• Aging Us · May 2020

    Preventive strategy for the clinical treatment of hip fractures in the elderly during the COVID-19 outbreak: Wuhan's experience.

    • Jing Liu, Bobin Mi, Liangcong Hu, Yuan Xiong, Hang Xue, Wu Zhou, Faqi Cao, Mengfei Liu, Lang Chen, Chenchen Yan, Hui Li, and Guohui Liu.
    • Department of Orthopedics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
    • Aging Us. 2020 May 7; 12 (9): 7619-7625.

    AbstractHip fractures in the elderly account for more than half of osteoporotic fractures and represent a substantial economic and social burden. Novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), which began to spread in December 2019, has created challenges in the management of elderly hip fracture patients, not only by influencing the choice of operation and postoperative rehabilitation methods, but also by generating new risks for the medical staff. During this period, our infection and orthopedic treatment unit in the center of the epidemic area effectively treated 82 elderly patients with hip fracture, and no cross-infection occurred. Therefore, our experience in prevention and treatment is worth recommending to frontline anti-epidemic personnel.

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