A simple slip on the sidewalk can be life-threatening
This is particularly true when you’re a senior. In fact, 25-50% of seniors with a hip fracture are at risk of death within a year. Broken bones in senior patients often lead to increased risk of dementia and other complications like bed sores, urinary tract infection, blood clots, pneumonia, and more.
We’re coming up on “Slippery season” here in Calgary, and through research, we now know that the weather impacts the number of people coming into the hospital with fractures.
Your gift will help purchase essential equipment and fund vital research. From knee, shoulder and hip replacements to spinal surgery and bone repairs, you’ll ensure our health care teams are well-equipped to provide life-saving and life-changing orthopedic surgery to thousands of patients every year.
Did you know?
25-50% of seniors with a hip fracture are at risk of death within a year.
You can reduce the risk of death by doing surgery within the first 24-36 hours of injury.
The number of patients admitted with broken bones increased by almost 40% when the temperature drops below zero in Calgary
Orthopedic trauma is top five in the world in terms of disability and death.
Each year, thousands of patients require life-saving and life-changing orthopedic surgery
You can help seniors like Betty.
Betty is the primary caregiver for her husband. He has Parkinson’s and early onset dementia. Unfortunately, Betty fell while transferring her husband from the couch to his bed and fractured her hip and her wrist.
She told Dr. Neil White, an orthopedic surgeon, “Dr. Neil, you’ve got to get me home because there’s no one else to look after my husband.”
Dr. White’s team was able to get Betty into surgery right away. She was motivated to get up and better quickly and was back home within three days!
You may not realize just how much an orthopedic trauma can impact your life. It can stop you from working, stop you from participating in your hobbies, or, like Betty, a broken bone can stop you from caring for your loved ones.
You can help patients like Betty recover and get back home to their families as quickly as possible.
Help more people like Betty todayYour support allows us to provide life-saving and life-changing orthopedic surgery to thousands of patients each year
You’ll help patients like Betty recover and get back home to their families as quickly as possible.
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