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Paolo Falaschi David Marsh Editors

Orthogeriatrics The Management of Older Patients with Fragility Fractures Second Edition In collaboration with Stefania Giordano

Practical Issues in Geriatrics Series Editor Stefania Maggi Aging Branch CNR-Neuroscience Institute Padua, Italy

This practically oriented series presents state of the art knowledge on the principal diseases encountered in older persons and addresses all aspects of management, including current multidisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. It is intended as an educational tool that will enhance the everyday clinical practice of both young geriatricians and residents and also assist other specialists who deal with aged patients. Each volume is designed to provide comprehensive information on the topic that it covers, and whenever appropriate the text is complemented by additional material of high educational and practical value, including informative video-clips, standardized diagnostic flow charts and descriptive clinical cases. Practical Issues in Geriatrics will be of value to the scientific and professional community worldwide, improving understanding of the many clinical and social issues in Geriatrics and assisting in the delivery of optimal clinical care. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15090

Paolo Falaschi  •  David Marsh Editors

Orthogeriatrics The Management of Older Patients with Fragility Fractures Second Edition

In Collaboration with Stefania Giordano

Editors Paolo Falaschi Geriatrics Department Sapienza University of Rome Roma Italy

David Marsh Department of Orthopaedics University College London London UK

In Collaboration with Stefania Giordano Assistant Geriatrician at Italian Hospital Group Guidonia (RM) Italy

This book is an open access publication. ISSN 2509-6060     ISSN 2509-6079 (electronic) Practical Issues in Geriatrics ISBN 978-3-030-48125-4    ISBN 978-3-030-48126-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48126-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this license to share adapted material derived from this book or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names,