Publications by authors named "Kendall Pye Hammonds"
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- This study investigates how different surgical methods impact the risk of dislocating a hip prosthesis in patients with and without cognitive impairment who underwent hemiarthroplasty for femoral neck fractures.
- Out of 828 patients, the dislocation rate was higher (3.4%) in the cognitively impaired group compared to the cognitively intact group (1.3%), with direct anterior approaches showing no dislocations for either group.
- Significant differences in dislocation risk were found between surgical methods specifically for the cognitively impaired group, and patients who experienced dislocations had a 3.2 times higher risk of death compared to those who did not dislocate.
Unlabelled: An elevated brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) level has been shown to be associated with mortality and cardiac events in cardiac surgery, but its utility in the prediction of morbidity and mortality in hip fracture surgery is unknown. The primary aim of this study was to determine if there is a difference in BNP level at the time of injury between patients who do and do not develop complications after hip fracture surgery. The secondary aim was to determine if there is a predictive relationship between complications associated with the initial BNP level and mortality.
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