Table 2.
Clinical and surgical description of the fracture.
| Variables | Total (n = 163) n (%) |
Female (n = 98) n (%) |
Male (n = 65) n (%) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fracture mechanism | ||||
| Low energy trauma | 124 (76.1) | 84 (85.7) | 40 (61.5) | 0.004 |
| High energy trauma | 39 (23.9) | 14 (14.3) | 25 (38.5) | |
| Type of fracture | ||||
| Trochanter (extracapsular and extraarticular) | 158 (96.9) | 93 (94.9) | 65 (100) | 0.075 |
| Neck (intracapsular and extra-articular) | 5 (3.1) | 5 (5.1) | 0 | |
| Type of surgical intervention | ||||
| Intramedullary nail or osteosynthesis | 137 (84.1) | 86 (87.8) | 51 (78.5) | 0.028 |
| Partial hip replacement | 16 (9.8) | 10 (10.2) | 6 (9.2) | |
| Total hip replacement | 10 (6.1) | 2 (2.0) | 8 (12.3) | |
| Surgical complication | ||||
| Bleeding | 11 (6.7) | 6 (6.1) | 5 (7.7) | 0.696 |
| Type of anesthesia | ||||
| General | 3 (1.8) | 2 (2.0) | 1 (1.5) | 0.008 |
| Spinal | 160 (98.2) | 96 (98.0) | 64 (98.5) | |
| Anesthesia complication | ||||
| Hypotension | 40 (24.5) | 16 (16.3) | 24 (36.9) | 0.003 |