SAN DIEGO -- Preoperative clonidine reduced intraoperative blood loss and postoperative transfusions among patients undergoing pelvic and acetabular fracture surgery, a randomized trial showed.

The patient is a 74-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension who initially presented to an urgent care facility with left knee pain after falling directly onto his knee. At the urgent ...

Clinical guidelines recommend low-molecular-weight heparin for thromboprophylaxis in patients with fractures, but trials of its effectiveness as compared with aspirin are lacking. In this pragmatic, ...

The worldwide incidence of hip fractures in 2019, was estimated to be more than 14 million (95% CI 11·1–18·1 million), with a higher incidence in individuals aged 65 years and older and in women.1 The ...