Orthopedics / TJR

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.

Les Schwendeman, MD, medical director of the Youngstown, Ohio-based The Orthopaedic Surgery Center, said the practice's growth over the past two years led to plans to construct a new center in Boardman, Ohio, according to The Business Journal.

Jon Cornelius, MD, of Lebanon, Tenn.-based Hughston Clinic Orthopaedics, spoke about outpatient joint replacement using robotics with the Lebanon (Tenn.) Democrat.

Here are eight studies on outpatient joint replacement covered by Becker's ASC Review so far in 2019:

A new study published in The Journal of Arthroplasty examined outpatient total joint replacements and one-night inpatient joint replacements to compare the burden of care for surgeons.