Dear Colleagues:
The Radiology Department points out that patients with suspected pelvis/hip fracture may need hospitalization and eventually surgery.
Therefore, it argues that is an unsafe practice, time-consuming and an extra unnecessary inconvenience for both patient and medical practitioners, to refer patients in such conditions to Primary Care Clinics when a ‘fast track’ system is in practice at the A&E.
Attached are relevant information on management of hip fractures and on the fast-track process.
SOP – Management of Hip Fractures
FINAL Adult hip fracture fast track NURSE document_on KURA (1) (1)
regards
jason
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Dr Jason Bonnici MD FMCFD Dipl. Fam. Pract. (MCFD) Honorary Secretary Malta College of Family Doctors
E: [email protected]
A: The Professional Centre, Triq tas-Sliema, Gżira. GŻR 1633
W: mcfd.org.mt