The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently awarded a $500,000 grant to an international trauma study called INORMUS (International Orthopaedic Multi-center Study in Fracture Care). According to lead researcher Mohit Bhandari, MD, of McMaster University in Canada, the observational cohort study hopes to enroll 40,000 patients; its goal is to determine both patient and institutional factors in developing nations such as China and India that help predict complications within 30 days after a fracture or dislocation.”From the data on our initial 6,000 patients, we found that some people wait up to four days to have an open fracture treated,” Dr. Bhandari told Orthopedics This Week. He added that in rural India, 30-day mortality after a fracture arising from a major traffic accident is 2%. “While 2% may not sound shocking,” Dr. Bhandari said, “imagine that many people coming into a US hospital with only a fracture and being dead within 30 days.”
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