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Patients get a recovery suite, not a hospital bed, after this new joint...
Early on a gray morning, as Paula Pitarresi slept under a blue sheet in an operating room in the Buffalo Surgery Center, Dr. Andrew Stoeckl sliced open her right knee, sawed away the damaged bone and...
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Seattle Children’s warns of potential infection risk
Up to 12,000 children and young adults treated at Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center since 2010 could be at risk of infection from surgical instruments that may not have been...
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DOCTORS JOIN EARLY RELEASE PARADE
The march toward single-day joint replacement surgery goes on. The biggest impediment to patients returning to their homes following hip or knee replacement surgery, according to many surgeons, is...
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DePuy offers ambulatory surgery outpatient solutions for joint replacement...
DePuy Synthes Companies announces the national launch of the DEPUY SYNTHES ADVANTAGE™ Outpatient Solutions Program to facilitate best practices and protocols for joint replacement in ambulatory...
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Outpatient Surgery Safe for Total Hip
Total hip replacement can be performed safely and effectively on an outpatient basis for healthy patients, a researcher reported here. From 2008 to 2014, a total of 549 patients underwent...
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Device Makers Need to Prepare For Move to Increased Outpatient Procedures
Device makers have historically cultivated close ties with surgeons and hospitals, but the move toward value-based care is prompting both hospitals and payers to scrutinize where costs can be saved....
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Same-day hip replacements get patients back on their feet
Debbie Spina is a supervisor for the radiology department at the Hospital for Joint Diseases at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. But when CBS News met her this spring, she was a patient...
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Hospitals fret as joint replacements move to outpatient centers
Before Stacey Cook received the first of two hip replacements last year at an outpatient surgery center in Davenport, Iowa, his surgeon, Dr. John Hoffman, told him he would be standing and walking...
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Hospitals And Surgery Centers Play Tug-Of-War Over America’s Ailing Knees
Five years ago, Dr. Ira Kirschenbaum, an orthopedic surgeon in the Bronx who replaces more than 200 knees each year, would have considered it crazy to send a patient home the same day as a knee...
View ArticleWarding Off Decline, Hospitals Invest in Outpatient Clinics
Giant U.S. hospital operators, including Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dignity Health and HCA Healthcare Inc., are investing heavily in surgery centers, emergency rooms and urgent care clinics located...
View ArticlePatients at This Seattle Surgery Center Can Go Home Just Hours After a Joint...
These days, it can take longer to get your car’s tires replaced than to have one of your joints replaced. Seattle’s First Hill Surgery Center is now offering total knee and total hip replacement...
View ArticleGoing home the same day you get a new hip or knee: Patients like it, but it...
That outpatient trend is not new, but it has accelerated at a time when hospital finances are already under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic and rising labor costs. When a Rothman Orthopaedic...
View ArticleA View of Mixed-Reality Tech’s Future in Orthopedics
With mixed-reality headsets, orthopedic surgeons can improve procedural precision, streamline workflow, and democratize care. In total knee arthroplasty, once an orthopedic surgeon has performed...
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