T
hinking of adding a total
joint replacement program?
You're not alone. These pro-
grams are becoming
increasingly common as advanced anesthesia techniques
and muscle-sparing procedures have become the norm.
"It's taken more than a decade to get people interested," says
Richard Berger, MD, a hip and knee reconstruction and replacement
orthopedic surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, Ill.,
who was one of the first to perform a same-day joint replacement,
about 14 years ago. "But over the past 2 to 3 years, the idea of outpa-
tient total joints has really started to take off."
The benefits of outpatient total joints are easy to see. "People would
rather be at home," says Robert Kohen, MD, an orthopedic surgeon
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Outpatient
Total Joints:
A Growth Opportunity?
More and more facilities are
adding outpatient total joints
— should you be one of them?
z OUTPATIENT GROWTH
Have you considered
adding an outpatient
total joint program?
John
A.
Scarfone
(Starfleet
Productions)
Kendal Gapinski
Associate Editor
