Dr Lara Harvey, a senior research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and our ANZHFR co-chair Prof Jacqueline Close, a geriatrician based at Prince of Wales Sydney discuss their newly published research titled “Adherence to clinical care standards and mortality after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2015–2018: a retrospective population-based study”.
The ACSQHC hip fracture care clinical care standard comprises seven quality statements supported by 16 quality indicators. This study looked at the impact of adherence to these standards on mortality for patients with hip fracture.
You can find the full study here in the Medical Journal of Australia.

In this episode, Professor Rebecca Mitchell and Dr Hannah Seymour discuss the work they led in partnership with international colleagues from the Fragility Fracture Network on consensus statements developed to aid clinicians in their decision-making and to reduce practice variations in the management of patients with hip fracture taking direct oral anticoagulants.

For the full article:
Principles for management of hip fracture for older adults taking direct oral anticoagulants: an international consensus statement

https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.16226?af=R

For more information on the upcoming ANZHFR Sprint Audit, email j.hallen@neura.edu.au

Professor Jacqui Close, Registry Co-Chair and Geriatrician at Prince of Wales Hospital, along with Dr Phil Black, Anaesthetist at Prince of Wales Hospital share the results of the ANZHFR Preoperative Fasting Sprint Audit and the implementation of Sip Til Send at Prince of Wales.

Resources:

Kluger MT, Culwick MD, Moore MR, Merry AF. Aspiration during anaesthesia in the first 4000 incidents reported to webAIRS. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 2019;47(5):442-451. doi:10.1177/0310057X19854456

The video recording of Professor Close's presentation on the Preoperative fasting sprint audit at the Binational Hip Fest can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1kadcg2Hz4

The podcast with Dr Matthew Checketts, Consultant Anaesthetist, titled Sip Til Send can be found at: https://hipcast.buzzsprout.com/1739857/10350612

For further information on the Sprint Audit, go to: https://anzhfr.org/sprintaudits/

Sip Til Send Resources: Prince of Wales and Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital. See Shared hospital resources at https://anzhfr.org/resources/