Severely Injured Patient in Older Age
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Orthopedics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 20490
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In everyday clinical practice, we are registering an increasing number of older patients. The geriatric fracture patient is becoming more and more at the forefront due to the demographic development. The Federal Statistical Office anticipates a share of over-67-year-olds of 27.4% in 2060 and thus forecasts a significant increase; the number of polytraumatized geriatric patients will rise in line. The TraumaRegister DGU® of the German Trauma Society (DGU) provides interesting insights into the age structure and patient outcome. In 2017 in total 26.2% of the patients included were over 70 years old. Geriatric polytraumatized patients show significant differences in injury patterns and treatment strategy compared to younger patients. This is often due to the pre-existing diseases and various drugs that alter the physiology. Hospitals and professional societies are currently dealing with numerous challenges—in particular, considering the 1-year mortality, which is about 25% in fractures close to the hip joint. In other areas (e.g., the treatment of vertebral body fractures, pelvic fractures, or dealing with septic geriatric patients), this patient population also poses great challenges for the treating physicians.
With this Special Issue, we hope that the treatment of patients in older age will be better structured and that the quality of life after a serious accident can be better understood.
Prof. Dr. Paul Alfred Grützner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polytrauma
- TraumaRegister
- geriatric patients
- quality of life
- severely injured
- orthogeriatric