Texas ASC adds outpatient total hip replacements

The Surgery Center of Amarillo (Texas) has begun offering outpatient total hip replacement to patients, myhighplains.com reported Aug. 16.

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Tyler Cooper, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the ASC, said the procedure takes about 90 minutes and allows people to avoid long hospital stays during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ASCsaid it also plans to add outpatient total shoulder replacements.

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