Frequency and causes of orthopedic patient's hardware removal in Imam Khomeini & Bu Ali Sinahospitals in sari at 2015

Operative surgeries for orthopedic hardware removal are one of the most common elective orthopedic surgeries. Believes and conceptions of orthopedists about removing orthopedic devices are different. There is no solution based on witness about removing orthopedic devices.
Methods & Materials: all the patients who had been admitted for removing orthopedic devices in operating roomhad been studied prospectively
Findings: 140patients, 90 males (64.5 %) and 50 females (35.5%) , with average 48.18±54.35 years old (18-95 years old) studied.Most anatomic location included leg with 39 cases (27.7%) and Femur with 21 cases (14.9%) and less anatomic locations included Hip with 1 case (0.7%) and shoulder with 2 cases (1.4%).26 patients (18.5%) were operated as an elective surgery (due to surgeon’s recommendation and hospitalization in this group were in average 32.12 minutes and 4.44 days.
decision about removing orthopedic devises is difficult, needs to pay attention to all aspects and current indications.Because of lack of facilities and hospital staff are can say that by reducing elective surgeries cases we can consider the more important patients.