Modernising Hip Fracture Surgery

Edward Dawe FRCS(Tr & Orth) BSC(Hons) Dip(SEM), Specialty Registrar Year 8, Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford, Honorary Clinical Lecturer Brighton and Sussex Medical School, ORKSS research collaborative Piers Page MPhil MRCSEd, Specialty Registrar Year 4, Frimley Park Hospital, Honorary Clinical Lecturer Brighton and Sussex Medical School, ORKSS research collaborative Hip fracture, while affecting a broad group of patients including the relatively young and extremely active, is a disease of old age and for some patients it represents an end of life event. The management of these injuries is challenging, as the highest standard of evidence is required and best practice should be agreed, but nonetheless each case must be judged on its individual merits. Out of this is being born a truly multidisciplinary science of hip fracture care which is both multi-faceted and increasingly detailed.