Elderly patients undergoing hip fracture surgery face a high risk of in-hospital mortality frequently driven by respiratory failure, highlighting the need for targeted respiratory monitoring and care.
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May support enhanced respiratory monitoring after hip fracture surgery; hypothesis-generating for intervention trials.
This study demonstrated that hip fracture patients are at relatively high risk of in-hospital mortality following surgical intervention with a high proportion of patients succumbing to respiratory failure. The findings compel us to investigate strategies that can minimize mortality related to respiratory failure in this patient population such as minimising opioid use, early mobilisation, and implementing greater respiratory monitoring.
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Groff et al. (2019) studied this question.
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