TOTBİD Dergisi

TOTBİD Dergisi

2021, Cilt 20, Sayı, 2     (Sayfalar: 249-253)

Approach to elderly hip fractures during the Covid-19 pandemic

Mehmet Mesut Sönmez 1

1 SBÜ Hamidiye Etfal Eğitim Araştırma Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Kliniği, İstanbul

DOI: 10.14292/totbid.dergisi.2021.43
Görüntüleme: 538
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The starting point for the Covid-19 pandemic can be considered with the notification of cases of pneumonia, whose cause is unknown at the time, by the World Health Organization`s China Country Office on December 31, 2019. The identification of a new coronavirus that has not previously been detected in humans on January 5, 2020. The Covid-19 outbreak, declared pandemic by the World Health Organization as of March 12, 2020, because of taken its place all over the world in as little as three months. Covid-19 pandemic still continues to threaten physically, spiritually and socially whole of the world and its human beings. The scale of the outbreak has caused significant changes in treatment and patient approach protocols in the field of orthopedics and traumatology as well as in all branches. Various measures have been taken to conduct health services on a national scale. It has also been inevitable that new approaches will be revealed, especially in terms of the management of elderly hip fractures, which are at high risk for Covid-19.

Anahtar Kelimeler : hip fracture; Covid-19; pandemic