[Risk and complication profiles of orthogeriatric patients in elective hip and knee joint replacement].

ABSTRACT:

Background

The care of geriatric patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery is becoming increasingly more important due to demographic trends. Compared to geriatric traumatology, however, there are still no established orthogeriatric care models in Germany and therefore hardly any scientific data. The aim of this study was to describe the risk and complication profiles in older patients with elective hip and knee replacements.

Methods

In a prospective study data were collected from orthogeriatric patients with indications for elective hip and knee replacement surgery who fulfilled defined inclusion and exclusion criteria between January 2021 and August 2023 in the orthopedic department of a German university hospital for the descriptive analysis of risk and complication

SUBMITTER: Kappenschneider T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11870982 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature