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Short-term outcomes of outpatient surgery for total knee arthroplasty
- Source :
- Singapore Medical Journal. 60:314-316
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Medknow, 2019.
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Abstract
- Introduction We developed an accelerated clinical pathway involving outpatient surgery for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) who are healthy enough for early discharge. Methods Between March 2014 and April 2015, 89 TKAs were performed at a single institution by a single orthopaedic surgeon. 31 patients met the inclusion criteria for the study. All patients received 2 g tranexamic acid and 750 mg cefuroxime sodium intravenously 30 minutes prior to surgery. A multimodal protocol for perioperative pain management was used for all patients. Results 31 patients (three male, 28 female), with a mean age of 67 (range 49-78) years, who underwent TKA were enrolled in this study. The mean length of hospital stay was 28.7 (range 16-49) hours and mean duration of surgery was 92 (range 75-128) minutes. Combined spinal epidural anaesthesia was performed for 23 (74.2%) patients and general anaesthesia was used in 8 (25.8%) patients. Among the 31 patients, 23 (74.2%) patients were discharged within 23 hours of surgery. Conclusion Early discharge of patients following outpatient surgery for TKA was not associated with any procedure-related complications among the selected patients up to three months postoperatively.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Outpatient surgery
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Clinical pathway
medicine
Humans
General anaesthesia
030212 general & internal medicine
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
Early discharge
Early Ambulation
Aged
Rehabilitation
business.industry
General Medicine
Perioperative
Middle Aged
Surgery
Treatment Outcome
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
Orthopedic surgery
Critical Pathways
Female
Original Article
business
Tranexamic acid
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00375675
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Singapore Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1c3cb968430753c2e9e4dc7964a709ff