Fatores relacionados à mortalidade de idosos vítimas de fratura de fêmur e quadril

Abstract

With the increase in life expectancy, a higher incidence of hip and femur fractures is perceived, due to the characteristics of the elderly population, such fractures have been showing a high mortality rate in the immediate and late postoperative period, given the data in question, the objective of the present study is to demonstrate the main factors that contribute to the increase in the elderly who suffered fractures of the femur and hips and who passed by the surgical procedure for resolution. This is a literature review survey, in which searches were performed on the Pubmed, SCIELO and Google scholar platforms using femur fracture, mortality and hips as descriptors, selecting articles published in the last five years. About 500 articles were found, of which 50 remained after reading the title and 11 after reading in full. Among the studies analyzed, the most prevalent factors that were closely related to the studies analyzed, the most prevalent factors that were closely related to the mortality of the elderly after a hip and hip fracture were advanced age, time elapsed between the trauma and the surgical procedure, the presence of more than one pre-existing comorbidity and state nutritional.