Perioperative Anaesthetic Management of fracture femur in patients more than 60 years of age

Abstract

Background-Rational for Clinical Audit Report: Patients age more than 60 years coming for fracture femur surgery have multiple comorbidities which can affect the anaesthetics management. These patients have a high incidence of perioperative mortality and morbidity which included postoperative delirium, hypoxia, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, anemia, congestive cardiac failure, acute renal failure. It is recommended that these patients go for early surgery and mobilization. Rashid hospital, being a tertiary trauma center, gets high incidence of fracture femur in geriatric population. Proper optimization and intraoperative management is the key to early mobilization, discharge, decreased hospital stay and improved quality of life.