At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Gregg R. Klein, MD, presented a study, which found surgeons can safely and effectively perform total hip replacements in an outpatient setting, according to Medpage.
Researchers analyzed 549 patients who underwent mini-posterior arthroplasty at a single ambulatory surgical center and were discharged the same day from 2008 to 2014.
Here are five things to know:
1. A mere 0.5 percent of patients were admitted to the local hospital following the outpatient procedure.
2. Of that 0.5 percent, one patient was admitted for not disclosing a longstanding high-dose narcotics' dependence and another patient was admitted for migration of the acetbular component. Another patient was admitted for polyarthralgia with hypotension. None of these admissions were related to patients undergoing the procedure in an outpatient setting, Dr. Klein concluded.
3. The study found the average wait time until the patient was up and mobile was 2.5 hours, and the average discharge time was 7.37 hours.
4. Of the first 100 patients in the study, 5 percent developed hemotomas. Of the subsequent patients, 1.1 percent developed hematomas following the procedure.
5. Of the patients studied, 0.9 percent developed infections, 1 percent had dislocations and 0.5 percent had venous thromboembolism.
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