Sentences with phrase «knee replacement patients»

Bryan believes that another benefit of saving the ACL and PCL for knee replacement patients is that the ligaments will take some of the strain off the metal and plastic components of the knee replacement and help it to last longer.

In this new study, researchers reviewed the outcomes of 546 total hip and knee replacement patients with a minimum of 11 months post-operative followup.

«Quad activation is the biggest thing we have got to change to improve recovery and long - term function for knee replacement patients,» said Dr. Dennis.

In addition, after total knee replacement patients are in hospital longer and the chance of being readmitted or requiring a re-operation during the first year is higher.

Orthopedic surgeons from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have developed two new prediction tools aimed at identifying total hip and knee replacement patients who are at - risk of developing serious complications after surgery.

«Obesity associated with longer hospital stays, higher costs in total knee replacement patients.»

Using neuraxial anesthesia over general anesthesia reduced the risk of pulmonary compromise by twofold in knee replacement patients and over threefold in hip replacement patients.

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Xarelto and Eliquis are approved to treat patients with a type of irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation that significantly increases stroke risk, as well as to prevent blood clots following hip or knee replacement, and to treat deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

6 Points on Patient - Specific Knee Replacement Using Stryker's ShapeMatch Technology Written by Laura Miller August 24, 2011 Source: Beckers Orthopedic...

This new letter to the BMA claims that 1,350 people waiting to have a cataract removed, and 700 elderly patients needing a hip or knee replacement will be disrupted by the strike.

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.

Dr. Goesling and her team analyzed patterns of opioid use in 574 patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty).

Of this group, 53 percent of knee - replacement patients and 35 percent of hip replacement patients were still taking opioids at six months after surgery.

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.

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.

They add, «A long - term goal includes the development of interventions to aid physicians and patients with opioid cessation following surgical interventions» such as hip and knee replacement.

So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr Jashvant Poeran at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York, set out to determine the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in a large sample of US patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement surgery.

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special 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.

There were 2,636 patients who underwent a total knee replacement and 792 who underwent a total hip replacement after bariatric surgery.

A simplified frailty index created by surgeons at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Mich., is a reliable tool for assessing risk of mortality and serious complications in older patients considering total hip and knee replacement procedures, according to new study findings presented at the 2014 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Put another way, morbidly obese patients who had bariatric surgery were 75 % less likely to have in - hospital complications from a total hip replacement and 31 % less likely to have in - hospital complications for a total knee replacement.

A study from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that in morbidly obese patients, bariatric surgery performed prior to a total hip or knee replacement can reduce in - hospital and 90 - day postoperative complications and improve patient health, but it does not reduce the risk of needing a revision surgery.

The propensity score was defined as the conditional probability of a patient undergoing bariatric surgery, given his or her baseline characteristics, including: age, year in which a total hip or total knee replacement was performed, laterality (unilateral versus bilateral surgery), sex, health care payer, region (rural versus urban), and Elixhauser comorbidities.

«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.»

«I think using our frailty index can kind of enlighten surgeons into recognizing that even if they are doing an elective case, such as total knee or hip replacement, sicker patients who have significant medical histories may have a high risk of wound infections and even mortality,» Dr. Adams said.

«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.»

In the second study, doctors Courtney, Lee, and their colleagues, examined a total of 738 patients who underwent total hip and knee replacement.

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).

Thus, patients with even one of these risk factors should not undergo outpatient or overnight total hip and total knee replacement.

«Under the previous model, nearly one in four patients undergoing knee or hip replacement were preemptively admitted to the ICU,» said Lee.

«We would recommend being selective when indicating patients for injection, and limiting use of injections to people unlikely to undergo knee replacement in the near future,» said lead study author Nicholas Bedard, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

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).

Medical director of Arthritis Research UK Professor Alan Silman said: «This is a comprehensive study that provides both patients and surgeons with valuable information about the risk and benefits of two effective types of knee replacement operations.

«To put the risks in perspective, if 100 patients had a partial knee rather than a total knee replacement there would be one fewer death and three more re-operations in the first four years after surgery.»

His colleague Alex Liddle, an Arthritis Research UK clinical research fellow who ran the study, added: «Partial and total knee replacements are both successful treatments and a large proportion of patients with end - stage knee osteoarthritis are suitable for either.

In this population of shoulder - arthroplasty patients, obesity was not a risk factor for blood clot - related complications (thromboembolism), as it is for patients undergoing hip or knee replacement.

By modeling indirect savings of the individual returning to the work force after surgery, researchers found that the lifetime societal net benefit for patients undergoing knee replacement averages between $ 10,000 and $ 30,000.

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

These relatively high prevalence estimates also highlight the significant ongoing need to care for all of the patients with total hip and knee replacement.

Paired with a mentor who aimed to give him a broad look at the intersection of health services research and medicine, Neiman worked on a paper about total knee replacement, a project surveying part of the FDA's drug approval process, and another study about shared decision - making between patients and doctors.

To obtain a broad sample of patients undergoing non-cardiac inpatient procedures, such as hip or knee replacements, researchers examined elective, urgent and emergency surgeries as well as procedures performed during the day, at night, on weekdays and on weekends.

Patients who activated more of their quadriceps or «quad» muscles earlier in their therapy showed better rehabilitation progress when it came to their abilities to climb stairs, a telltale sign of recovery after knee replacement.

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

Non-biologic DMARDs may be continued throughout the perioperative period in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and lupus undergoing elective hip or knee replacement.

In the first such collaboration of its kind, an expert panel of rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons has developed guidelines for the perioperative management of anti-rheumatic medication in patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement.

Biologic medications should be withheld as close to one dosing cycle as scheduling permits prior to elective hip or knee replacement and restarted after evidence of wound healing, typically 14 days, for all patients with rheumatic diseases.

«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.

«Our findings provide the first general population - based evidence that osteoarthritis patients who have total knee or total hip replacement surgery are at increased risk of heart attack in the immediate postoperative period,» concludes Dr. Zhang.