Sarcouncil Journal of Medical Sciences

Abstract: Improvement of living condition along with better health services worldwide will rise life expectancy of peoples, so the number of elderly persons will be increased, this number expected to be double by the year 2040. Forty patients included in the study whose were put in one of two groups, the group I was 16 patients underwent early surgical intervention while group II was 24 patients felt in the second group with delayed surgery. Gender of the patients was varied in both groups; in group I there are 6 males and 10 females while in delayed group (II) females were 14 in number and 10 males. Fracture neck of femur is a common geriatric orthopedic problem where approximately half of the women and 20% of men had lifetime risk for sustaining this injury after the age of 65 year. Delayed surgery do not associated with high incidence of complications or death but associated with prolonged hospitalization postoperatively. Optimization of patient medical condition and rapid reversing of comorbidity are vital for decreasing complications. Early surgery is better than late intervention