iHOPE (clinical study of hip fracture patients needs a logo)

iHOPE

Improve Hip Fracture Outcome in the Elderly Patient

The Anaesthesia Department of the University Hospital RWTH Aachen, in Aachen, Germany is planning a multi-centre, randomised controlled clinical study on elderly patients. Therefore, we need an interesting and concise logo for this study.
Target group:
Physicians (i.e. Anaesthetists and trauma surgeons) and elderly patients.
Study description:
The aim of the study is to treat elderly patients (> 65 years of age) with a hip fracture either with a general anaesthesia (= that means a medically induced coma with loss of conscious, resulting from the administration of one or more general anaesthetic agents) or a spinal anaesthesia (= Spinal anaesthesia is the injection of a local anaesthetic into the subarachnoid space with a fine needle. The patient is conscious during the operation and there is a local anaesthesia from the navel to the toes allowing medical procedures.) After the hip surgery, we will compare these two kinds of treatments with regard to postoperative outcome of these patients (like All-cause mortality, new-onset serious cardiac and pulmonary complications, the appearance of delirium (=acute confusional state) etc.).