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Missed hip fractures.
From a series of 825 consecutive admissions with a hip fracture there were 16 cases in which the diagnosis was not made when the patient was initially seen in hospital. The reason for the delay in diagnosis was failure to correctly interpret X-rays in 10 cases and failure to X-ray the hip in three cases. The fracture was radiologically invisible in only three patients. Fifteen of the fractures ...
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The following incident was submitted to the Emergency Medicine Events Register (EMER – http://www.emer .org.au). EMER is an anonymous, confidential and protected incidentreporting system that is supported by ACEM. Anyone working in emergency medicine can enter a near miss or AE by following the link from the website. It should only take 5 min and will help to inform practice and improve patient...
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Hip fractures account for <1% of all pediatric fractures. Most are caused by high-energy mechanisms, but pathologic hip fractures also occur, usually from low-energy trauma. Complications occur at a high rate because the vascular and osseous anatomy of the child's proximal femur is vulnerable to injury. Surgical options vary based on the child's age, Delbet classification type, and degree of di...
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Hip fractures are the most serious osteoporotic fracture at both an individual and population level. In the United States alone there are over 250,000 hip fractures each year (1), costing at least 5.4 billion dollars annually (2). About 20 percent of persons who fracture their hip are dead within a year (3, 4) and, of the survivors, many never regain their prefracture level of physical function...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.9.1.23