Orthopedics / TJR

Minneapolis-based Twin Cities Orthopedics significantly reduced opioid use by implementing new protocols at its 48 facilities and urgent care clinics, without lowering patient satisfaction or affecting pain scores.

Outpatient joint replacement is becoming a popular option among patients, according to Vivek Shah, MD, who performs outpatient total joint surgeries at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are several in New Jersey that include outpatient total joints.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are several ASCs in New York that include outpatient total joints.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are several ASCs in North Carolina that include outpatient total joints.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here several ASCs in Ohio that include outpatient total joints.

Outpatient total hip and knee replacement costs less than inpatient surgery, after which patients stay two days in the hospital, according to research published in Acta Orthopaedica.

Surgeons performed the first total hip replacements at Dublin (Ohio) Surgery Center after a "tremendous amount of preparation," according to Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates.

A JAMA Internal Medicine study cited by MedicalExpress found that older total joint replacement patients are increasingly choosing to recover at home rather than at skilled nursing facilities.

Outpatient total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty is feasible in an academic multidisciplinary tertiary care hospital, according to research published in the Journal of Arthroplasty.