Sentences with phrase «joint replacement patients»

Currently, most joint replacement patients will be given intravenous antibiotics before and after their surgery to help stave off an infection.

«Two new ways to identify joint replacement patients at risk for post-operative complications.»

The aim of the study, published July 19 in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, was to evaluate the extent of pain relief and functional improvement in total joint replacement patients with various levels of obesity.

There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

Not exact matches

«It's not going to cure arthritis, but it will delay the progression of arthritis to the damaging stages when patients need joint replacements, which account for a million surgeries a year in the U.S.»

«Obese patients don't need to lose weight before total joint replacement, study finds: Long - term relief from joint replacement surgery similar in obese and non-obese patients.»

«This manuscript adds to our collective knowledge regarding the risk benefit ratio of total joint replacement surgery in obese patients.

Will there come a time when a patient with arthritis can forgo joint replacement surgery in favor of a shot?

«Yet, the cost - effectiveness of bariatric surgery to achieve weight loss prior to joint replacement and thus decrease the associated complications and costs in morbidly obese patients was unknown.»

«Many patients continue using opioids months after joint replacement.»

For patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement, smoking is associated with an increased risk of infectious (septic) complications requiring repeat surgery, reports a study in the February 15 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

For study purposes, researchers assumed that at least one - third of patients having bariatric surgery lost their excess weight prior to undergoing joint replacement.

Total knee and hip replacements are highly effective operations for patients with severe pain in these joints, and opioids are the main drugs used for acute pain management after such surgeries.

«Weight - loss surgery before joint replacement can improve outcomes in severely overweight patients.»

While randomized clinical trials are the gold standard of clinical research, such trials are not feasible for testing anesthesia technique in joint replacement surgeries, because the low incidence outcomes would require a huge number of patients.

«Our findings indicate that surgical weight loss prior to joint replacement is likely a cost - effective option from a public payer standpoint in order to improve outcomes in obese patients who are candidates for joint replacement,» Dr. Dodwell said.

Dr. Goesling and coauthors discuss the implications for short - term and long - term pain management for patients undergoing joint replacement surgery.

About 30 percent of the patients were taking opioids prior to their joint replacement surgery.

The researchers looked at how smoking history affected the risk of hospital readmissions among patients undergoing total joint replacement — either hip or knee replacement.

The study included data on 15,264 patients who underwent a total of 17,394 total joint replacements between 2000 and 2014 — 8,917 hip and 8,477 knee replacements.

In order to test its ability to predict patients with a higher risk of complications, Dr. Parvizi and colleagues enrolled 829 patients who had a planned total joint replacement between 2012 and 2013, and assessed their glycemic levels via the traditionally used maker called HbA1c, side by side with fructosamine.

The researchers merged Norwegian national joint replacement and prescription databases to analyze medication use by nearly 40,000 patients undergoing THA from 2005 to 2011.

Previous studies have shown that bariatric surgery in patients who are morbidly obese can reduce weight and comorbidities, but clinicians have not known whether the surgery is helpful or harmful to morbidly obese patients undergoing a joint replacement.

Statistical analyses showed that bariatric surgery lowered the comorbidity burden of patients prior to total joint replacement (P < 0.0001 for TKA and P < 0.005 for THA).

All the cases involved sudden and severe deterioration among patients undergoing partial hip replacement, known as hemiarthroplasty, for fractured neck of femur (broken hip), and associated with the use of cement to help hold the artificial hip joint in place.

Other healthcare claims database studies have been conducted looking at joint replacement in morbidly obese patients, but results have been inconsistent, most likely due to selection bias.

This insidious hardening of tissues also grips some patients following joint replacement or severe bone injuries.

«The question is how do we optimize these patients who have a real problem with their hip or knee and the comorbid condition of obesity, so that they can achieve maximal benefit from their joint replacement.»

«Bariatric surgery impacts joint replacement outcomes in very obese patients: Bariatric surgery performed prior to hip or knee replacement can reduce in - hospital and 90 - day postoperative complications.»

Research from The Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research and Education at Scripps Clinic could change how patients are treated to prevent blood clots after joint replacement surgery.

The multicenter study, led by Scripps Clinic orthopedic surgeon Clifford Colwell, MD evaluated the efficacy of a mobile compression device that is small and portable enough for patients to use at home for 10 days or longer after joint replacement surgery.

Using the scale as a benchmark, patients without a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cirrhosis have only a 3.1 percent probability of developing late, serious complications following joint replacement surgery.

Every 5 - unit increase in BMI beyond 30 kg / m ² was associated with higher hospitalization costs: in 2010 U.S. dollars, approximately $ 250 to $ 300 for patients undergoing TKR and $ 600 to $ 650 for patients undergoing a revision joint replacement.

This means fewer patients are routinely being admitted to these units after joint replacement surgery, resulting in lower overall costs without compromising patient safety as well as ensuring that relatively scarce critical care beds are available for those who truly need them.»

Obesity is associated with longer hospital stays and higher costs in total knee replacement (TKR) patients, independent of whether or not the patient has an obesity - related disease or condition (comorbidity), according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS).

«The bottom line is that obesity is increasingly common among patients undergoing joint replacement, which creates a myriad of technical and medical challenges, and likely contributes to the financial burden of the surgery,» said senior author David G. Lewallen, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon, also from Mayo Clinic.

As a result of the findings, the Penn team developed the six - point scale that orthopedic surgeons can use to determine a patient's candidacy for same - day or short - stay total joint replacement.

A new study appearing in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that these surgeries are generally safe with mortality rates decreasing for total hip (THR) and total knee (TKR) replacement and spinal fusion surgeries, and complication rates decreasing for total knee replacement and spinal fusion in patients with few or no comorbidities (other conditions or diseases).

For patients undergoing shoulder joint replacement surgery (arthroplasty), higher body mass index is linked to increased complications — including the need for «revision» surgery, reports a study in the June 7 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surjoint replacement surgery (arthroplasty), higher body mass index is linked to increased complications — including the need for «revision» surgery, reports a study in the June 7 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint SurJoint Surgery.

The authors reviewed data on 2,613 patients who were evaluated for unexplained joint pain after total hip and / or knee replacement.

Joint replacement overall, by making patients more mobile and fit tends to save lives.»

Among patients with unexplained pain after undergoing total joint replacement with metal - containing components, women are more likely than men to test positive for metal sensitization, according to the report by Nadim J. Hallab, PhD, and colleagues from Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.

Five to seven years down the road, he predicts, patients recovering from spinal fusion or joint - replacement operations will have some of their own fat cells removed, processed, and implanted at the same time as other surgical procedures.

«New medication guidelines for rheumatic disease patients having joint replacement: Guidelines aim to reduce risk of infection after knee or hip replacement.»

Most patients have a total hip replacement (THR) where a damaged hip joint is completely replaced with an artificial one.

Additional tests in tissue samples from osteoarthritic patients who had joint replacements at NYU Langone found similarly increased levels of adenosine A2A receptors on chondrocytes.

«When a patient comes in with a torn ACL or PCL, most orthopedic surgeons recommend surgery to repair the ligament because of its importance to the natural function of the knee,» said William Bryan, M.D., a Houston Methodist orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and total joint replacement.

«While evidence shows that joint replacement surgery improves pain, function, and quality of life for the osteoarthritis patient, the impact of cardiovascular health has not been confirmed,» explains lead study author Yuqing Zhang, D.Sc., Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.

Surgeons can currently create scar - like tissue to repair damaged cartilage, but ultimately most patients have to have joint replacements, which reduces mobility.

«Our study examines if joint replacement surgery reduces risk of serious cardiovascular events among osteoarthritis patients.»