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Objective: To evaluate the clinical and functional outcomes from patients undergoing surgery to treat hip fractures, with regard to the ASA score and time spent waiting for definitive surgical treatment. Method: Over a one-year period, 154 patients with hip fractures, aged 65 years and over, underwent operations. Data on the preoperative ASA score and the time spent waiting for the operation were obtained. Two years after the operation, Zuckerman‘s Functional Recovery Score (FRS) questionnaire was used to assess the patients' current functional capacity. Results: Mortality during the first postoperative year differed between patients with ASA 3 or 4 and those classified as ASA 1 or 2 (significant data; p < 0.05). Mortality up to the end of the second postoperative year was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in the ASA 3 or 4 group. The preoperative ASA score did not demonstrate any significant relationship with the patients' current functional capacity (p > 0.05). There was no significant difference between the group operated within 48 hours of admission and the group operated after 48 hours, in relation to mortality or current functional capacity (p > 0.05). The group aged 80 years and over showed significantly higher mortality (p < 0.05) than the group aged 65 to 79 years up to the end of the second postoperative year. Conclusion: The preoperative ASA score and an age of 80 years or over may be considered to be factors associated with higher mortality two years after hip fracture surgery. In isolation, time spent waiting for surgery was not significant.

OBJETIVO: Avaliar o resultado clínico e funcional dos pacientes submetidos à cirurgia por fratura do quadril relacionando com o escore ASA e com tempo para o tratamento cirúrgico definitivo. MÉTODOS: No período de um ano foram operados 154 pacientes com 65 anos ou mais, com fratura do quadril. Dados sobre o escore pré-operatório ASA e sobre o tempo de espera para a cirurgia foram obtidos. Dois anos após a cirurgia, foi aplicado o questionário Escore de Recuperação Funcional de Zuckerman (ERF) como examinadorda capacidade funcional atual dos pacientes. RESULTADOS: A mortalidade no primeiro ano pós-operatório apresentou diferença entre pacientes com ASA 3 ou 4 em relação aos classificados como ASA 1 ou 2 (dado significante p < 0,05). A mortalidade até o final do segundo ano pós-operatório foi significantemente maior (p < 0,05) no grupo ASA 3 ou 4. O escore pré-operatório ASA não apresentou relação significante com a capacidade funcional atual dos pacientes (dado significante p < 0,05). Não houve diferença significante entre o grupo operado em menos de 48 horas da admissão do grupo operado após 48 horas, em relação à mortalidade e à capacidade funcional atual (dado significante p < 0,05). O grupo de 80 anos ou mais apresentou mortalidade significantemente maior (p < 0,05) do que o grupo de 65 a 79 anos até o final do segundo ano pós-operatório. CONCLUSÃO: O escore pré-operatório ASA e a idade maior de 80 anos podem ser considerados fatores associados à maior mortalidade após dois anos de pós-operatório por fratura do quadril. Isoladamente, o tempo para o tratamento cirúrgico não foi significante. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical and functional outcomes of patients submitted to surgery for hip fracture through the ASA score and time for definitive surgical treatment. METHOD: During one year, 154 patients with hip fractures, aged 65 years and over, were operated on. Data from the pre-operative ASA score and time awaiting operation were obtained. Two years after the operation, Zuckerman's Functional Recovery Score (FRS) questionnaire was used to assess the current functional capacity of the patients. RESULTS: Mortality in the first post-operative year was different between patients with an ASA 3 or 4 compared to those classified as ASA 1 or 2 group (significant data p0.05). There was no significant difference between the group operated within 48 hours of admission and the group operated after 48 hours in relation to mortality or current functional capacity (p>0.05). The group aged 80 and over showed significantly higher mortality than the group aged 65 to 79 years through the end of the second post-operative year (p>0.05). CONCLUSION: A preoperative ASA score and an age of 80 or over may be considered factors associated with higher mortality two years post-operatively after hip fracture. In isolation, time awaiting surgery was not significant.