Why are we still using pre-operative skin traction for hip fractures?
| Autor: | James K.F Kong, Jimmy W.K. Wong, Peter K. Y. Chiu, Daniel Kwok Hing Yip, Chi Fat Chan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Evening genetic structures medicine.medical_treatment Population Analgesic Pain law.invention Randomized controlled trial Traction law Preoperative Care medicine Humans Pain Management Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Femur Prospective Studies education Prospective cohort study Aged Pain Measurement Skin Aged 80 and over Analgesics Original Paper education.field_of_study Hip Fractures business.industry Middle Aged Traction (orthopedics) eye diseases Surgery Treatment Outcome Orthopedic surgery Female business |
| Zdroj: | International Orthopaedics. 26:361-364 |
| ISSN: | 1432-5195 0341-2695 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00264-002-0387-8 |
| Popis: | We performed a prospective randomised trial to evaluate the efficacy of pre-operative skin traction for proximal femoral fractures in 311 patients. We found a significant difference in pain score on the evening of admission and the first morning after admission between the groups with traction compared the group without. However, there was no corresponding increase in analgesic requirement during this period. The peak pain score pattern also was different in our population. No other objective benefit can be shown from using skin traction, and its routine use should be abandoned. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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