OTA 2002 Posters - Geriatrics

Medical and Economic Impact of Preoperative Cardiac Testing of Elderly Patients with Hip Fractures

Gregory J. Della Rocca, MD, PhD; Christopher Combs, BS; Joseph Borrelli, Jr., MD; William M. Ricci, MD; Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Basocervical Compared with Intertrochanteric Fractures: An Analysis of Radiographic and Functional Outcomes

Brian W. Su, BSE; Themistocles S. Protopsaltis, MD; Marshall A. Kuremsky, BA; C. B. Chapman; S. M. Sinicropi; Melvin P. Rosenwasser, MD; Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and the New York Orthopaedic Hospital, New York, New York, USA

*Percutaneous Balloon-Plasty Technique and Results for Tibial Plateau, Distal Radius, Femoral Condylar, and Calcaneus Fractures

Mark A. Reiley, MD (e-Co-founder and Inventor Kyphon, Inc.); University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

·*Cannulated Screw Fixation Augmentation: Comparison between CaPO₄ Paste and an Acrylic Cement

Pierre Guy, MD, MBA; Fayez Al-Sayegh, MD; Edward J. Harvey, MD; Rudy Reindl, MD; Michael Glanzmann, MD; McGill University, Montreal Quebec, Canada (All authors b-Synthes, Canada)

Predictors of Mortality in Elderly Patients after Hip Fracture: A Prospective Study

Nader Paksima, MD; Gina B. Aharonoff, MPH; Steward Rosser, MD; Joshua Patterson, MD; Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD; Kenneth J. Koval, MD; Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, USA

Implications of a Major Geriatric Trauma Unit

Martyn Snow, MBchB; Pierre Pechon, MBchB; Charles M. Court-Brown, MD, FRCS; Trauma Unit, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, United Kingdom