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31.01.2017 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Does N-terminal Pro-brain Type Natriuretic Peptide Predict Cardiac Complications After Hip Fracture Surgery?
verfasst von:
Charles N. Cornell, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 6/2017
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Excerpt
Ischemic heart disease is a leading cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality following orthopaedic surgery [
10]. As a result, reliable assessment protocols for assessing and managing cardiac disease have been developed for patients undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery [
5]. While these same tools can be used for patients in whom urgent surgery is being considered—such as older patients with hip fractures—it would be advantageous to these more-fragile patients if we could make these protocols more generalizable, more efficient, more accurate, and less expensive …