Preoperative health and nutritional status are critical predictors of 1-year mortality in geriatric patients undergoing surgery for fragile intertrochanteric fractures, highlighting the need for prompt nutritional reinforcement and early surgery.
Preoperative health status is a critical predictor of postoperative outcomes in elderly patients with fragile intertrochanteric fractures. Priority care should be given to the patients who are elderly, male, have dementia, have comorbidities, or are malnourished. Prompt nutritional reinforcement should be provided to patients with intertrochanteric fractures with comorbid hypoproteinemia and underweight. Furthermore, surgery should be performed as early as possible in patients with fewer comorbidities.
Han et al. (Wed,) studied this question.