Why are hip fractures in the elderly so deadly?
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My grandad died from this recently at 98.
They have to operate – and put them under and you end up with the anaesthetic repressing the breathing – so they manually breathe for them. They come out of the anaesthetic in pain so need relief which suppresses the breathing.
It then becomes a losing battle. It’s going to be a year of rehab when they are elderly and infirm and unlikely to live past the rehab anyway.
So you either lay off the pain meds and watch them be in pain for a long time when they havnt got long to live anyway – or you keep them on the pain meds and say goodbye.
Vale Stan the Man!!!!! Feb 2024!!!
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