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120 Beulah Road, NE, Suite 200 Vienna, Virginia 22180 Toll Free: 800-336-0332 Fax: 703-255-6134 Nursing Sample case Confused, demented, sedated, disoriented 80 year old patient was hospitalized for surgery for a broken (fractured) hip, and after surgery was not properly restrained, fell out of bed, and fractured her other hip. According to the records, the patient was 80 years of age, tripped at home, and was admitted to the hospital with a fractured left hip. After stabilization, she was taken to surgery on May 8, by Dr. #1. She had a resection of the femoral head that was fractured and replacement with a prosthesis. This was with the "endoprosthetic bipolar replacement." According to the x-ray reports, the operation was properly done. Following this operation, the patient had difficulty with her lungs and had to be intubated (an endotracheal tube placed in the windpipe).
pain in the right hip. Despite that, apparently no physician was notified until later that morning when the hip x-ray was obtained and showed a fracture of the right hip.
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