Atrial fibrillation as a preoperative risk factor predicts long-term mortality in elderly patients without heart failure and undergoing hip fracture surgery

Abstract Long-term hospital utilization trajectories in the context of surgery are understudied. Heart Failure (HF) is associated with an increased risk for rehospitalization after hip fracture surgery. This study aimed to examine whether older adults (>= 65 years old) have distinct patterns of long-term hospital utilization trajectories and whether HF influences these trajectories before and after hip fracture surgery. An initial cohort of 1,172 older adults hospitalized for hip fracture surgery between October 2015 and December 2018 was extracted from electronic health records. To adjust selection bias in baseline characteristics, we used propensity score 1:1 ratio matching to identify a final cohort of older adults with (n = 288) and without (n = 288) HF. Monthly frequencies of emergency department (ED) and inpatient encounters 1-year before and after the hip fracture surgery were used to identify distinct utilization trajectories from group-based trajectory analysis. Logistic regression models were used to compare the differences in ED and inpatient trajectories among patients with and without HF. High ED users (9.5%) had constant high ED use, and high inpatient users (20.1%) had significantly higher inpatient usage around the index hip fracture surgery hospitalization. Both low ED (90.5%) and inpatient (79.9%) users had low but slightly increased use around the index hospitalization. Compared with older adults without HF, older adults with HF were more likely to be long-term high inpatient user (OR = 1.94, 95% CI 1.25-3.01, p = 0.003), but not significantly different in long-term ED utilization (OR=1.87, 95% CI 0.97-3.59, p = 0.62).

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Prolonged vasopressor support during hip-fracture surgery is a risk factor for enhanced mortality.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.733764961.793549244 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Davide Cattano

Keyword(s):

Risk Factor ◽

Hip Fracture ◽

Hip Fracture Surgery ◽

Vasopressor Support ◽

Fracture Surgery

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Depressive Disorders Lead to Increased Complications After Geriatric Hip Fractures

Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation ◽

10.1177/21514593211016252 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 215145932110162

Author(s):

Matthew S. Broggi ◽

Philip O. Oladeji ◽

Syed Tahmid ◽

Roberto Hernandez-Irizarry ◽

Jerad Allen

Keyword(s):

Risk Factor ◽

Hip Fracture ◽

Postoperative Complications ◽

Hip Fractures ◽

Depressive Disorders ◽

Surgical Site Infections ◽

Wound Complications ◽

Non Union ◽

Hip Fracture Surgery ◽

Fracture Surgery

Introduction: Intertrochanteric hip fractures are a common injury treated by orthopedic surgeons and the incidence rate is rising. Preoperative depression is a known risk factor for postoperative complications in orthopaedic surgery, however its effects on outcomes after geriatric hip fractures is relatively unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between preoperative depression and potential complications following open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) and intramedullary nailing (IMN) of geriatric hip fractures. Methods: In this retrospective study, the Truven Marketscan claims database was used to identify patients over age 65 who underwent ORIF or IMN for a hip fracture from January 2009 to December 2019. Patient characteristics, such as medical comorbidities, were collected and from that 2 cohorts were established (one with and one without depression). Chi-squared and multivariate analysis was performed to investigate the association between preoperative depression and common postoperative complications following intertrochanteric hip fracture surgery. Results: In total, 78,435 patients were identified for analysis. In those patients with preoperative depression, the complications associated with the greatest increased odds after undergoing ORIF were surgical site infections (OR 1.32; CI 1.23-1.44), ED visit for pain (OR 1.27; CI 1.16-1.39), wound complications (OR 1.26; CI 1.14-1.35), and non-union (OR 1.25; CI 1.17-1.33). In the patients with preoperative depression undergoing IMN, the complications associated with the greatest increased odds after were surgical site infections (OR 1.37; CI 1.31- 1.45), ED visit for pain (OR 1.31; CI 1.19-1.44), wound complications (OR 1.23; CI 1.10-1.39), and pneumonia (OR 1.22; CI 1.10-1.31). Conclusions: Preoperative depression in patients undergoing hip fracture surgery is associated with increased complications. Recognizing a patients’ preoperative depression diagnosis can allow physicians to adapt perioperative and postoperative surveillance protocols for these higher risk patients. Further studies are warranted to investigate the degree to which depression is a modifiable risk factor

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