Hip Fracture Works
The first fracture-specific pack inside TraumaWorks. A hip-fracture-native conversion layer for the repeated burden of proximal femur fracture care — femoral neck, intertrochanteric, and subtrochanteric — when those injuries sit inside frailty, anticoagulation, cognitive impairment, pain, immobility, delirium risk, and time-sensitive surgery coordination. Its job is not to classify a fracture pattern. Its job is to link pattern → person → pathway → timely action.
Convert hip-fracture complexity
into timely, person-aware,
operative clarity.
Without losing frailty, baseline function, or pathway truth. Every output should identify the proximal-femur problem, make the phenotype visible, separate timing from urgency slogans, connect anatomy to operative branches, preserve medical and geriatric realities, explain the pathway, standardize handoff, and convert repeated expertise into durable assets.
Seven recurring pressures
in every department,
every day.
Description is never enough
The fracture must be described cleanly, but description alone never finishes the case.
Timing ≠ urgency
Time to surgery matters, yet timing is inseparable from optimization and system flow. A 24-hour slogan doesn't capture either.
Baseline changes meaning
Pre-injury mobility, cognition, and frailty change the meaning of the same image.
Operative branches
Fixation vs hemiarthroplasty vs total hip vs cephalomedullary vs plating vs staged — the choice must be framed clearly, not buried.
Family explanation
Patients and families need explanation that is simultaneously truthful, calm, and pathway-aware.
Choreography
Good outcomes rely on the choreography between ED, ward, theatre, anesthesia, geriatrics, pain services, physio, discharge planning, social support.
Product potential
Unusually strong — departments repeatedly need teaching ladders, handoff cards, timing dashboards, optimization checklists, family explainers, pathway kits.
Ten new named skills.
HipFractureSignalCompression
Detect the decisive variables in a hip-fracture case and compress them.
FemoralNeckToArthroplastyBranching
Branch logic for displaced vs impacted neck → fixation vs arthroplasty.
PeritrochantericStabilityMapping
Stability assessment for inter- and subtrochanteric patterns.
FrailtyAndBaselinePreservation
Keep pre-injury mobility, cognition, and frailty in the frame at every decision point.
TheatreReadinessArchitecture
Make theatre readiness explicit — what has to be true before knife-on-skin.
DeliriumImmobilityRiskFraming
Frame delirium and immobility risk as primary, not secondary.
FamilyHipFractureTranslation
Translate pathway choices into family-readable explanations.
HipFractureServiceLinePackaging
Package the service line for repeatable departmental use.
FragilityPathwayAssetDesign
Design the assets — checklists, cards, dashboards — that institutionalize the pathway.
HipFractureMemorySealing
Seal each case's reusable knowledge into the SHIVA memory layer.
HipFractureWorks is not:
Autonomous fracture diagnosis. A universal implant-selection authority. A medical-clearance engine. A delirium protocol by itself. An anti-coagulation policy by itself. A fall-prevention program by itself. Personalized medical advice without clinician review.
The MIT code is free. A clinical site license covers deployment support, integration help, hash-verified releases, and indemnification language. See commercial offerings →