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1.60: Escalation thresholds
 Ambulance service & NHSD alerts - SPOA
1.70: Red Flags

Critically ill pts via blue light due to acute comorbidity

3.40: Definitive Treatments (Tx)
4.40: Definitive Treatments (Tx)
  
4.42: Tx of new / existing medical problems

Requiring specialist medical / geriatric input

dietician & pharmacist review

4.43: MDT, PT & OT Tx.
Rehab to optimise mobility & ADL.  Home assessment, equipment, adaptations & care package. SW input
4.44: Info & reassurance

How to improve Bone health eg

safe transfers, avoiding falls, mobilizing, healthy diet & exercise

 

4.50: Discharge - inc Rehabilitation, Review & QoL measurement

Discharge to own home / intermediate care facility or rehab unit / intermediate care at home / long term care facility .

For secondary prevention of falls and fracture post discharge refer to secondary prevention of falls pathway

 

1.00: Symptom
# Hip 
5.00
 
4.41: Ongoing post-op care

Thrombop -rophylaxyis, analgesia,

nutritional supplemen -tation

4.45: Fall Prevention
Extra to rehab & discharge plan
4.46: Bone health Tx

Commence Tx for secondary prevention of fracture. Consider other causes

3.00: Peri-operative (inc full pre-op assessment)

Anaesthetic  & Surgical Ax

Aim to operate within 24 hrs if / when fit on dedicated trauma list with senior anaesthetists & surgeon involvement. Only delay / cancel if pt medically unfit for surgery, as assessed by consultant in elderly medicine or orthogeriatrician

 

2.70: Red Flags

Physiologically deterirorating / critically ill pts

 

2.60: Transfer to ward or theatre
Transfer directly to appropraite clinical  area within 2hrs
4.24: Falls Ax

All pts to have falls risk factor Ax as per NICE & secondary prevention pathway

4.23: Bone health Ax

As per NICE 

guidelines

Follow up DXA scan if needed

 

4.22: MDT

Appropriate nursing / OT / Physio / Social Worker Ax

 

 

3.24: Nutritional Ax
Standard -ised Ax with nutritional plan - BAPEN guidelines
4.20: Assessments (Ax)
  
3.22: Further imaging

Re- xray, CT, MRI or isotope scan

3.20: Assessments (Ax) & Diagnostics (Dx)
  
2.30: Decision aids

To support use of general Tx's

3.21: No diagnostic required
  
4.21: Post op reviews
For pain & medical / surgical comp -lications
2.10: Dx thresholds

BOA Blue Bk

SIGN guidelines

 

3.10: Dx thresholds & decision aids

Locally agreed 

anaesthetic protocol

2.21: General Ax

Hypotension

pain,

infection

oxygen saturation

2.22: Basic screen

Bloods, ECG, cross match

2.23: Imaging

Hip x-ray

X-ray for other injuries

chest xray

 

2.24: Social, functional, cognitive assessment

Inc family & carers

3.23: Repeat investigations

Electrolytes, clotting, ECG, troponin, Hb

2.20: Assessments (Ax) & Diagnostics (Dx)
  
3.45: Palliative Care
Treatment of symptoms
3.46: Patients requiring conservative Tx

Pts whose operative risk is too great/ refuse op/  fixation impossible due to state of bones

3.44: Post op Care

Adequate analgesia

oxygenation & fluids.

Thrombo- prophylaxis, pressure area care, nutrition, bowel care

3.43: ICU / HDU

Some pts will require 

post-op stay in HDU / ICU so ensure access

3.42: Surgical Tx of fracture

Either 

fixation or joint replacement.

Type of anaesthetic depends on individual risk Ax. Bone biopsy

3.41: Info & reassurance

Consent & marking (NB mental incapacity)

related to surgical Tx & post op recovery 

2.41: Info & reassurance
Patient focused & relevant family info -rmation & individualized discharge pathway . Home / Carer needs
2.42: Active monitoring

Observe & respond 

- pain 

- vital signs

- infections

- current illness

 

2.43: Pressure relief
Pressure relieving mattress &  assess pressure risk via a tool eg Waterlow score
2.44: Medication

IV Fluids

analgesia

oxygen

DVT prophylaxis 

NICE

2.40: General Treatments (Tx)
  
3.50: End of Life Care

Refer to the Liverpool Care Pathway

Can be in hospital, hospice, social care, community or home. Consider wider family needs & preferences

3.60: Review predicted rehab outcomes & length of stay by day 3 post op
inc discharge destination
4.00: Post-op care

Ongoing assessment & treatment for post op complications or medical problems

Rehab & discharge planning

Secondary fracture & falls prevention

 

4.10: Dx thresholds & decision aids
NICE secondary prevention of fragility #
2.00: Initial assessment of patients hip # & general Ax

- Full cinical examination

- Clinical examination of hip 

- Pain Ax

- Other injuries eg fracture / Head injury

- Medication review - eg Warfarin

- Medical current co-morbidities eg infection / confusion / dehydration / hypotension

3.30: Decision aids

Local thrombopro -phylaxis protocol 

4.30: Decision aids
NICE guideline on falls prevention
Hip Fracture including the secondary prevention of further fractures related to falls and bone fragility v3 May 2009
2.45: High risk patients
REMOVE BOx
2.50: Orthogeriatric assessment & treatment

Assistance with ongoing treatment of acute illnesses, identifying 

current  LTC's & treatments

need for further interventions to achieve fitness for surgery 

eg ECHO, Warfarin reversal, antibiotics, insulin sliding scale,

pacemaker check, assessment of frailty, mortality risk & CPR status

 

1.30: Prevention of index fall or fracture

NOGG & NICE CG21 falls guidelines

NICE Oesteoporosis guidance

RCP report on falls & fracture services

1.20: Incidence & Prevalence

70,00 hip fractures per yr in people over 60 yrs  

BOA sheet

NSF for older people 

NHS Institute focus on # NoF

 

1.10: Symptom Description

Loss of mobility, fall &/or pain 

Correct identification of fracture & establish if any old fractures or previous hip surgery exist

2.45: High risk patients

Discussions between

ortho-

geriatrician, surgical & anaesthetic team regarding patient management

        
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