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J U N E 2 0 1 4 | O R E X C E L L E N C E. C O M S U P P L E M E N T T O O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E
• Your biggest worry. A fall. A home nurse visits the patient's house at
least 10 days before the procedure to remove everything that could be a
fall hazard. During the post-op period, the patient gets 10 visits from the
PT specialist and 10 to 12 from the home nurse. We're committed to make
them safer at home than they would be at a hospital.
• The financial implications to outpatient TJR. About a million
total joints are done every year, so outpatient TJR opens up a significant
potential market for ambulatory surgery centers. For hospitals, doing a
case outpatient requires them to forfeit the income associated with inpa-
tient care, but they will adapt, just as they did with cataracts and gallblad-
K I C K E R
You won't want to miss the Same-Day Total
Joint Workshop, our special pre-conference
session at this year's OR Excellence. Hosted
by orthopedic surgeon Christopher McClellan,
DO, and Dave Berkheimer, BSN, CRNA, who
perform same-day total joint surgery at
Advanced Center for Surgery in Altoona, Pa.,
the hands-on total joint workshop will take
place over 2 days:
• Tuesday, Oct. 14 from 1 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
• Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
You'll then have 90 minutes to freshen up and check in with family and work
before OR Excellence begins 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Seating for the 8-hour workshop is limited to the first 50 attendees. Cost is
$239 per person. Register at
orexcellence.com
.
PRE-CONFERENCE
Special 2-Day Total Joint Replacement Workshop at ORX
Starfleet
Productions
HIP REPLACEMENT Dr. McClellan removes
the old hip socket during a 40-minute total
hip arthroplasty.
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