IDENTIFICATION OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF PROXIMAL FEMUR FRACTURE IN THE SANTA CASA DE MISERICÓRDIA DE FRANCA (Atena Editora)

Abstract

To identify the epidemiological profile of proximal femur fracture at Santa Casa de Misericórdia Franca-SP. Methods: a collection of data from the fall and personal through a questionnaire in the first care and other data of the fracture and treatment, through the patient’s medical records. The statistical analysis was made by the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Result: A total of 164 patients were identified, 101 female (61.6%) and 63 male (38.4%) patients, with an average age of 74.27 years, and most of these traumas are approximately 90% low energy. We identified 89 patients with transtrochanterian fracture (54.26%), 55 patients with femur neck fracture (33.50%), and 20 patients with subtrochanteric fracture (12.75%). An average rate of 6 to 7 days of hospitalization was obtained, with a 1-year mortality rate of 20% (33 cases). Conclusions: What was found in the study corroborates with findings in the literature, having the female gender as the predominant, the low energy generated the trauma, the main classification of fracture that was found is transtrocanterian, the death rate was also close to the literary data. On the other hand, an lower average age than the published studies was observed, as well as the time of admission of patients until treatment, even though this is higher than that recommended in therapeutic protocols.