Karen Hertz • Julie Santy-Tomlinson
Editors

2018

Holistic Care and Management of the
Orthogeriatric Patient

Patients with fragility fractures are the most common orthopaedic trauma inpatients, found in great numbers in every acute hospital in every country. Their care is provided in hospital units as well as pre-hospital care settings, emergency departments, outpatient clinics, rehabilitation units and community settings. Despite their high numbers and presence in a wide range of settings, nurses have rarely received formal education in the care and management of this vulnerable group of patients and the centrality of the nursing role is not well recognised in the literature.