Combining enhanced recovery and short-stay protocols for hip and knee joint replacements: the ideal solution

Joint first for hip and knee replacements.

Iranian Joint Registry(Iranian National Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Registry)

   Periodic evaluation and monitoring the health and economic outcome of joint replacement surgery is a common and popular process under the territory of joint registries in many countries. In this article we introduce the methodology used for the foundation of the National Iranian Joint Registry (IJR) with a joint collaboration of the Social Security Organization (SSO) and academic research de...

Current state and future of joint replacements in the hip and knee.

Joint replacements of the hip and knee are among the most clinically successful operations. According to figures compiled by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the number of primary total hip replacements performed in the USA was 220,000 in 2003. This was 38% more than in 1996 and this number is expected to rise to 572,000 (plus another 97,000 revisions) by 2030. The number of primar...

Salvage Procedures for Management of Prosthetic Joint Infection After Hip and Knee Replacements

BACKGROUND The increasing load placed by joint replacement surgery on health care systems makes infection, even with the lowest rates, a serious concern that needs to be thoroughly studied and addressed using all possible measures. METHODS A comprehensive review of the current literature on salvage procedures for recurrent PJIs using PubMed, EMBASE and CINAHL has been conducted. RESULTS Pro...

Short-term recovery from hip and knee arthroplasty.

There are many studies of long-term recovery from major point arthroplasty, but little is known about the first days and weeks after operation. We measured function, emotional state and life evaluation before arthroplasty and at seven and 50 days after in a consecutive series of 40 hip and 23 knee replacements. Pain was relieved significantly at seven days after hip arthroplasty and even more a...