Table 1

Patient profile, co-morbidities, pre and post-op mobility status
Case	Age	Sex	Mechanism of Injury	Type of injury	Co-morbidity	Pre-op mobility	Post-op mobility

1	77	M	Fall	Low velocity	Chronic Obstructive Airway disease	Independent	Zimmer frame
2	88	F	Fall	Low velocity	Nil	1 stick	Zimmer frame
3	90	F	Fall	Low velocity	Supraventricular tachycardia	Independent	1 Stick
4	70	F	Fall	Low velocity	Nil	1 stick	Zimmer frame
5	89	F	Fall	Low velocity	Hypothyroidism	Independent	Zimmer frame
6	89	F	Spontaneous	Pathologic	Myocardial infarction/IHD	2 stick	Zimmer frame
7	77	M	Spontaneous	Pathologic	Lung Carcinoma	Zimmer frame	Independent
8	65	F	Fall	Low velocity	Ischaemic heart disease	Independent	Assistance
9	68	M	Fall	Low velocity	AF/COPD/Hypertension	Independent	Assistance
10	89	F	Fall	Low velocity	CCF/AF/Hypertension	Independent	Zimmer frame
11	77	M	Fall	Low velocity	IHD/PVD	1 stick	2 sticks
12	62	M	Fall	Pathologic	Metastatic prostate Carcinoma	Independent	Zimmer frame
13	64	M	Fall	Low velocity	Ischaemic heart disease	1 stick	Zimmer frame
14	78	F	Fall	Low velocity	Heart block, Pacemaker	1 stick	Wheelchair
15	83	F	Spontaneous	Pathologic	Metastatic breast Carcinoma	Independent	Zimmer frame
16	85	F	Fall	Low velocity	Nil	Independent	Wheelchair
17	67	M	Fall	Pathologic	Metastatic prostate Carcinoma	Independent	1 Stick
18	72	F	Spontaneous	Pathologic	Chronic renal failure	Independent	Zimmer frame
19	80	M	Fall	Low velocity	NIDDM/MI/Hypertension	Independent	Wheelchair
20	78	F	Fall	Pathologic	Metastatic breast Carcinoma	1 stick	Wheelchair
21	91	M	Fall	Low velocity	IHD/CCF/PE	Independent	N/A
22	79	M	Fall	Low velocity	Paget's disease/IHD/Hypertension	1 stick	1 Stick
23	75	F	Fall	Low velocity	Hypertension	Independent	Independent
24	69	M	Fall	Pathologic	Metastatic prostate Carcinoma	Independent	N/A
25	75	F	Fall	Low velocity	IHD/AF/PVD	Independent	Independent
26	70	F	Impending	Pathologic	Metastatic breast Carcinoma	Independent	Zimmer frame
27	81	F	Fall	Low velocity	Hypothyroidism	Independent	Independent
28	69	M	Fall	Low velocity	Hypertension/AAA repair	Independent	Zimmer frame
29	88	M	Fall	Low velocity	IHD/Hypertension	1 stick	Zimmer frame
30	81	F	Fall	Low velocity	AF/NIDDM/Stroke	Independent	1 Stick
31	72	F	Spontaneous	Pathologic	Lung Carcinoma	Independent	Zimmer frame
32	81	F	Fall	Low velocity	Hypertension	Zimmer frame	2 sticks
33	68	F	Fall	Low velocity	Chronic Obstructive Airway disease	Independent	N/A
34	90	F	Fall	Low velocity	Hypertension/IHD	Zimmer frame	N/A
35	80	F	Impending	Pathologic	Metastatic breast Carcinoma	Independent	Zimmer frame
36	90	F	Fall	Low velocity	Hypertension	Zimmer frame	Independent
37	77	F	Fall	Low velocity	Nil	Independent	Zimmer frame
38	86	M	Spontaneous	Pathologic	Multiple myeloma	1 stick	Zimmer frame
39	94	F	Fall	Low velocity	Hypertension	1 stick	Zimmer frame
40	72	M	Fall	Low velocity	Paget's disease	Independent	Zimmer frame
41	89	F	Fall	Low velocity	IHD/CCF/MR	Independent	Zimmer frame
42	68	F	Spontaneous	Pathologic	Metastatic breast Carcinoma	Wheelchair	Wheelchair

Rethnam et al. Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2007 1:7 doi:10.1186/1752-2897-1-7