Why a hip fracture is the last fracture of life

The so-called last fracture of life means that the patient died after the fracture due to various reasons, among which only a few patients died because of anesthesia, surgery and related complications, and most of the cases that died were because conservative treatment was used. As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to break a bone. After a hip fracture, elderly people who take conservative treatment go to strict bed traction for about 3 months, and every time they move their bodies or turn over and pat their backs, it will cause severe pain at the fracture site. This is extremely painful for the elderly, and the hip muscles are thick, so it is difficult to ensure the quality of repositioning by traction alone, and most patients’ fractures tend to heal abnormally or even not, which affects the quality of life in the future. The elderly have a weak constitution, and prolonged bed rest can cause various complications, such as decubitus ulcer, pneumonia, urinary tract infection and deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs, which may lead to the eventual death of the patient. Some studies have shown that the one-year mortality rate of elderly patients with hip fracture after taking conservative treatment is close to 50%. Therefore, for elderly patients with hip fractures, early surgical treatment is recommended.