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if you're over 65 and you fall and break your femur or hip so you either crack the femoral neck or the femur itself your 12month mortality the probability you will be dead in 12 months after that break if you're 65 or older depending on the study is about 15 to 30%
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only 63% of men and 75% of women are still alive one year after a hip fracture. Versus 90% of people without a fracture.
the mortality when you look at 65y old olds and up who suffer a fall that results in the fracture of any part of the hip or femur uh at one year depending on the study it can be you know as low as 25% as high as 60%
I think I read something insane like half the people over age 65 who go in the hospital for a fall never come out or or I think it's something of that nature
the one that sticks out of my mind was 30 to 40% of people over the age of 65 who break their hip uh will not live will be dead within a year of that insult yeah because you got infection and then you have them that you're also like they're going to have to be immobilized so long and they get pneumonia or adasis pneumonia or something like that
he ultimately died as a result of a fall and a broken femur and within less than six months he was dead which is unfortunately far more common than people realize
if a person at that age or above falls and breaks their femur depending on the study it's anywhere from 10 to 30 percent mortality at 12 months
the one-year mortality depending on the series is 15 to 30 percent
because for even the people who don't have who you know the mortality of 20 to 30% within the first year you know that's been a stable number for decades
if you're 65 or older and you fracture that hip depending on the study 15 to 30% oneyear mortality
you know we talk a lot about the 15 to 30% of people over 65 who will die within a year of a hip fracture
when you look at 65 year olds and up who suffer a fall that results in the fracture of any part of the hip or femur uh at one year depending on the study it can be you know as low as 25% as high as 60% yeah the magic number is usually around 4050 yeah again it's I want people to understand what we just what we just said you take all the 65y olds and you look at those who fall and the fall results in a in a broken hip or femur and you ask the question how many of those people will be alive in 12 months the answer is half of them correct correct
the risk of death from that fall depending on the series you look at will be somewhere between 15 and 30% of those Falls if they result in a broken hip will result in fatality within the 12 months that ensue
once you reach a certain age like 65 and if you fall and break your hip or femur uh the probability of death is really high I mean it's you know in the order of 15 to 30% what often gets forgotten there even though I try to always mention it is of the survivors meaning the people who don't go on to die within 12 months um 50% of those people never reach the same level of function again
the risk of death from that fall depending on the series you look at will be somewhere between 15 and 30% of those Falls if they result in a broken hip will result in fatality within the 12 months that ensue
the the one that sticks out of my mind was 30 to 40% of people over the age of 65 who break their hip uh will not live will be dead within a year of that insult
the risk of death from that fall depending on the series you look at will be somewhere between 15 and 30% of those Falls if they result in a broken hip will result in fatality within the 12 months that ensue
even the people who live often about 50% of them never regain the same level of mobility they had before
So, so if you look at another study, study had like about 200 people in it. Um, it looked at the six-month mortality in people who were 65 or older who fractured their hip and the mortality was 25%.
So if they lowered the threshold in that study to people 50 and older, that mortality came down to just under 14%.
25% of those people will be dead in 6 months.
25% of those people will be dead in 6 months.
So if they lowered the threshold in that study to people 50 and older, that mortality came down to just under 14%.
So, so if you look at another study, study had like about 200 people in it. Um, it looked at the six-month mortality in people who were 65 or older who fractured their hip and the mortality was 25%.
Studies show that older individuals, when they get a hip fracture, it's been a while since I've looked at the literature, I think it was 50% never recover full function and die within I think two years, half of them going to convalescence, they have to be under constant care, they're not able to be functionally independent.
if they fall and break something and going to the hospital there's Pro I I don't know the exact statistic but I think it's better than 50% chance that they're dead within a year