PRATO – The miracle happened at the Santo Stefano hospital in Prato: a 102-year-old patient (103 in September) was able to walk again after an orthogeriatric surgery at the Santo Stefano hospital in Prato carried out for a fractured femur after a fall , slipping on a bathroom mat.
This was reported by the ASL Toscana Centro, explaining that “three days after the operation the patient was positioned alternately in an armchair and a wheelchair”, “six days after the operation she began to walk assisted by the physiotherapists with the aid of a walker”, the same “physiotherapists also collaborated in the timely reporting of hospital-territory continuity of care for the activation of home care” after the hospital stay.
“With Orthogeriatrics we are able to create personalized care paths always aimed at a rapid recovery of autonomy by the elderly who, for the most part, present in addition to the acute event also a high clinical complexity”, explains Dr. Monica Whatdirector of the Prato Nursing Management, extending “our best wishes” to the patient.
Orthogeriatrics, explains the ASL, “makes fractured elderly people, even those over one hundred years old, walk again early” and provides a recovery path in close collaboration between orthopaedist, geriatrician, anesthetist, nurse, physiotherapist and, if requested, also the assistant social, so as to address the numerous problems resulting from femur fracture with a multi-specialist approach”.
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