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Staged versus simultaneous bilateral total knee replacement
- Source :
- The Journal of arthroplasty. 1(4)
- Publication Year :
- 1986
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Abstract
- Bilateral total knee replacements were reviewed to determine whether any difference exists in the perioperative course between procedures done under one anesthetic (simultaneous) and those done under two anesthetics (staged). There were 29 staged and 18 simultaneous cases, therefore 76 separate procedures and 94 knees done. The total operative time, blood loss, and complications were similar between the two groups. However, the staged replacements had more than twice the hospital days (34.6 +/- 7.7 vs. 16.8 +/- 5.6, P less than .001) and 18% greater hospital bills. In fact, for a given patient, the hospital bill may be greater than 50% higher if a staged rather than simultaneous replacement is done. Therefore, simultaneous replacement is recommended for appropriate patients.
- Subjects :
- Hospital days
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Total knee replacement
Total knee arthroplasty
Perioperative
Length of Stay
Middle Aged
Hemophilia A
Arthroplasty
Surgery
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Hospitalization
Blood loss
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Anesthetic
Medicine
Operative time
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
business
Knee Prosthesis
medicine.drug
Anesthetics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08835403
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of arthroplasty
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f1e3ddd14c7978df1579d7f9e583b4e6