Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 1 Demographic data
From: Complication rates after proximal femoral nailing: does level of training matter?
Total | Group 1 (residents in their 1st or 2nd year) | Group 2 (residents in their 3rd or 4th year) | Group 3 (residents in their 5th or 6th year) | Group 4 (senior surgeons) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | 564 (100%) | 106 (18.8%) | 91 (16.1%) | 94 (16.7%) | 273 (48.4%) |
Gender | |||||
Female | 398 (70.6%) | 71 (67.0%) | 74 (81.3%) | 71 (75.5%) | 182 (66.7%) |
Male | 166 (29.4%) | 35 (33.0%) | 17 (18.7%) | 23 (24.5%) | 91 (33.3%) |
Age | |||||
Years | 80.7 (35–98) | 82.3 (50–96) | 80.3 (50–96) | 80.8 (57–96) | 80.1 (35–98) |
BMI | |||||
kg/m2 | 24.3 (13–40) | 23.9 (16–40) | 24.1 (16–35) | 24.2 (13–36) | 24.6 (14–39) |
Side | |||||
Right | 279 (49.5%) | 52 (49.1%) | 51 (56.0%) | 41 (43.6%) | 135 (49.5%) |
Left | 285 (50.5%) | 54 (50.9%) | 40 (44.0%) | 53 (56.4%) | 138 (50.5%) |
AO classification | |||||
31-A1 | 129 (22.9%) | 33 (31.1%) | 17 (18.7%) | 16 (17.0%) | 63 (23.1%) |
31-A2 | 352 (62.4%) | 64 (60.4%) | 64 (70.3%) | 64 (68.1%) | 160 (58.6%) |
31-A3 | 83 (14.7%) | 9 (8.5%) | 10 (11.0%) | 14 (14.9%) | 50 (18.3%) |
Surgery duration | |||||
Minutes | 55.6 (23–173) | 65.4 (31–173) | 62.2 (35–142) | 54.1 (23–128) | 50.2 (24–165) |
Type of nail | |||||
TFN | 294 (52.1%) | 38 (35.8%) | 37 (40.7%) | 58 (61.7%) | 161 (59.0%) |
TFN-A | 110 (19.5%) | 34 (32.1%) | 30 (33.0%) | 9 (9.6%) | 37 (13.6%) |
Gamma | 160 (28.4%) | 34 (32.1%) | 24 (26.4%) | 27 (28.7%) | 75 (27.5%) |