Minimal Invasive Geriatric Trauma Management
Patient of elderly age group develop osteoporosis which means the bones are very fragile and susceptible to fracture. Most of these patients are suffering from multiple pre-existing medical problems like diabetics, blood pressure, heart ailments, kidney problems and lung disease.
The aim of treatment in these patients is to make them ambulatory as early as possible. They require management by team of medical experts working in tandem with the orthopaedic surgeon. In addition these patients are unable to tolerate surgeries involving large incisions, extensive tissue trauma and blood loss.
Minimal invasive trauma surgeries available at Health City Hospital are a boom to these patients. These procedure cause very little tissue damage and blood loss, yet allowing the patient to resume his normal physical activities within a few day.