What are the prevalence and risk factors of postoperative delirium in elderly hip fracture patients?
Identifying and correcting modifiable risk factors such as nutritional support and blood glucose control may help prevent postoperative delirium in elderly hip fracture patients.
Correcting the modifiable risk factors might help prevent PD. Strategies might include nutritional support, tight blood glucose control, improvement of liver function, preoperative infection control and minimizing surgical injury or blood loss.
Guo et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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