Hipcast

Professor Kim Delbaere & Dr Rik Dawson share their work on raising awareness for falls prevention nationally. 

Kim is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia and a Professor of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales. She is the current President of the Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society. 

Dr Rik Dawson is a Gerontological Physiotherapist and postdoctoral researcher a...

A/Prof Danielle Ni Chroinin explores the effect of a multidisciplinary care bundle on the incidence of delirium after hip fracture surgery.

Links discussed:
1. The effect of a multidisciplinary care bundle on the incidence of delirium after hip fracture surgery: a quality improvement study (2020) in Anaesthesia
2. Delirium Reduction by Analgesia Management in Hip Fracture surgery (DRAM-HF): Exploration of perceive...

1 in 3 Australians aged 65 and over fall each year making it the leading cause of death for this age group.

Rik Dawson, an experienced physiotherapy and researcher, lifts the curtain to explain what is happening in residential care facilities in terms of physiotherapy care and rehabilitation and explores some important issues including:

•  The lack of rehabilitation available in residential aged care facilities;  
• The massive proble...

Dr Lara Harvey, a senior research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and our ANZHFR co-chair Prof Jacqueline Close, a geriatrician based at Prince of Wales Sydney discuss their newly published research titled “Adherence to clinical care standards and mortality after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2015–2018: a retrospective population-based study”.
The ACSQHC hip fracture care clinical care standard comprises se...

In this episode, Professor Rebecca Mitchell and Dr Hannah Seymour discuss the work they led in partnership with international colleagues from the Fragility Fracture Network on consensus statements developed to aid clinicians in their decision-making and to reduce practice variations in the management of patients with hip fracture  taking direct oral anticoagulants.

For the full article:
Principles for management of hip...

Professor Jacqui Close, Registry Co-Chair and Geriatrician at Prince of Wales Hospital, along with Dr Phil Black, Anaesthetist at Prince of Wales Hospital share the results of the ANZHFR Preoperative Fasting Sprint Audit and the implementation of Sip Til Send at Prince of Wales.

Resources:

Kluger MT, Culwick MD, Moore MR, Merry AF. Aspiration during anaesthesia in the first 4000 incidents reported to webAIRS. Anae...

Professor Xavier Griffin spearheads academic orthopaedics at Queen Mary University London and Barts Health, having joined as the inaugural chair of Bone & Joint Health. Professor Griffin's vision is for world class excellence in research and clinical academic training; providing opportunity for the next generation of clinician scientists to realise their aspirations.

Professor Griffin presented at ANZHFR's 2...

On this episode, join physiotherapist and ANZHFR project officer Karen Lee, Professor Cathie Sherrington from The University of Sydney, and physiotherapists Mr Brett Baxter from Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane and Ms Rebecca Ferrier from The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane as they share their Hip Tips from Physiotherapy.

To summarise for our listeners, the Top Tips for Physiotherapy are:

1. Physiotherapy interventio...

This podcast episode is hosted for the ANZHFR by former Registry Manager, Elizabeth Armstrong. On this episode, Elizabeth discusses with Dr Irewin Tabu the development and implementation of the Multicenter Implementation of Orthogeriatrics and a Fracture Liaison Service for Older People who have sustained a Hip Fracture.

Dr Irewin Tabu is a Consultant in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of the Philippines ...

This podcast episode is hosted by the Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Fragility Fracture Alliance, geriatrician Dr Hannah Seymour from Fiona Stanley Hospital in WA. On this episode, Dr Seymour discusses the Hip Attack Trials with principal investigator Dr Flavia Borges. Dr Borges is an Internist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, and in the Perioperative Care Division at McMaster University. She is also an Investig...

On this Hip Tips episode, join ANZHFR co-chair and orthopaedic surgeon Dr Catherine McDougall and orthopaedic surgeons Dr Chris Wall Toowoomba Base Hospital & Dr Ruth Varrall from Rockhampton Base Hospital as they share their top tips for optimising care for patients with hip fracture from an orthopaedic perspective.

Recommended Resources:
1. Toowoomba Base Hospital: Rural NOF Pathway
2. The Health Investigator...

On this episode is Dr Mitchell Sarkies, a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow from the Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University shares the upcoming plans for the ANZHFR Sprint Audit in acute rehabilitation.

Suggested references:
1. ANZHFR Sprint Audit page
2. Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: The national physiotherapy hip fracture sprint audit
3. ANZHFR March Newsletter

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