Despite slightly worse functional outcomes compared with patients on private insurance, patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty who were on Medicaid had high patient satisfactions scores, ...
The Total Joint Center of St. Louis, an affiliate of United Surgical Partners International, opened in 2014, with the first case performed in October of that same year. Since then, surgeons have ...
The deployment of a best practice alert for at-risk total joint arthroplasty patients is associated with a 1-year reduction in the rate of postsurgery mild hyponatremia from 25.9% to 12.6%, a ...
Results presented here showed patients who underwent robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty experienced improved ...
When performing a knee replacement surgery or total knee arthroplasty, doctors traditionally try to align the hip, knee, and ankle in a straight line, forming a neutral alignment, rather than ...
Whether partial versus total arthroplasty is the best for patients with unicompartmental osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee has long been debated. The so-called TOPKAT trial randomized patients to the ...
Chyrese Newman, RN, has more than a decade of nursing experience under her belt. For the past eight years, she has worked with a group of orthopedic surgeons at University of Utah Health. Her job is ...