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‘Falls’, the Enormous Impact Injuries for Elderly
Be careful granny, don’t be rushed!! A nephew said.
Falls in elderly people seem like a small problem, but they may cause big injuries for older adults, such as bruising, chronic pain, bone fractures, etc. Even though being careful in everything but we cannot deny that the percentage of falls in older adults is increased during the rainy season.
- Many medical studies were found that around a year after getting bone fractures, there was a risk of around 20% of death, 30% of disabled, and 40% of walking abnormalities.
- 95% of hip fracture patients had to do the operation.
- To do the operation within 72 hours after the bone fracture might be increasing the percentage of recovery.
- Centers of Excellence Orthopedic Center of Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai is able to do the operation within 24 hours in order to decrease your admitted period, cost, and prevent the infection. Also, to make sure that patient will recover as fast as possible.
- Getting other cures may cause more than 2-3 times the risk of death in patient.
Why are grandparents have more risk than the others?
Osteoporosis is a general disease that is usually found in the elderly. It causes loss of bone density and weight. As much as your grandparents’ age is, as less as their bone weight be lost. Therefore, their bone will be easy to break even though it is not a serious accident such as fall from the chair or bed, slip on the wet floor and other simple accidents. In addition, body degeneration, which makes it more difficult for our grandparents’ movement, might cause injury as well such as Cataract, Glaucoma, and another eye or brain disease.
The palliative treatment for our grandparents after getting hip fractures
In some cases, a doctor may diagnose the patient to do the operation because the fast threatening can be prevented the bed-ridden symptoms, e.g. bed sores, lung infections, and urinary tract infections, which will cause a risk of death in patient. On the other hand, another treatment may increase the risk of death by 2 to 3 times as well.
The most common types of Orthopedic surgery are:
- Internal fixation of bones
- Joint replacement procedures.
Most hip fractures require surgery to fix or replace the bone within 72 hours. Nevertheless, a fast operation after getting hip fractures also helps to decrease complication disease and our grandparents will be able to walk again. Moreover, the top-level hospital with professional doctors and co-working with the interdisciplinary teams will decrease the operation time to be done within 36 hours of the admission to the hospital instead (or within 24 hours if the patient is ready for operation). Therefore, all of those factors will bring good results for patients such as safer, less painful, avoiding complication disease before the operation, less time in hospital admitted and less payment too.
Better life after operation
The medical doctor recommends patient follow the rehabilitation programs with the Physiotherapists to help the patient recovery and be able to walk again as fast as possible. In the same way, to cure the Osteoporosis disease, a patient should take calcium, Vitamin D, and specific medical treatment for Osteoporosis disease.
House arrangement is also important after being discharged from the hospital to prevent accident repetition. For example, make sufficient light in a house, changing the floor to anti-slip tiles, make sure there is no water splash on the floor, install handrails around the house, using reflex stickers in a dark area, and using mobility aids.
Orthopedic Surgery Specialty
Centers of Excellence Orthopedic Center | Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai
