Tag: Artificial Knees

Reduced risk seen for total knee replacement and total hip replacement with metformin use

Modifications to the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery pathway due to the pandemic will become permanent, authors say

Visual Analog Scale pain score lower at one, two, three, and five hours postoperatively

Participants with high PRS had increased risk for joint replacement; stronger association seen with hip replacement for women versus men

Differences seen across the continuum of care for knee, hip total joint arthroplasty for osteoarthritis

Groups did not differ in hospital length of stay, complications, 90-day readmission, revision surgery at two years

However, younger patients have more risk factors for surgical complications, including higher BMI, and are more likely to smoke

Faster increase seen for total hip arthroplasty, while total knee arthroplasty has slightly higher odds of complications

No evidence of temporal association seen between invasive dental procedure and late prosthetic joint infection

In patients undergoing knee arthroplasty, postoperative incidence of venous thromboembolism lower with milvexian versus enoxaparin