Mitigating surgical risk in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty for fractures of the proximal femur
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- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- Published by British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
- Vol. 91-B (7), 851-854
- https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620x.91b7.22617
Abstract
Recently the National Patient Safety Agency in the United Kingdom published a report entitled “Mitigating surgical risk in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty for fractures of the proximal femur”. A total of 26 deaths had been reported to them when cement was used at hemiarthroplasty between October 2003 and October 2008. This paper considers the evidence for using cement fixation of a hemiarthroplasty in the treatment of hip fractures.Keywords
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