One hospital’s experience with the 3-hour Outpatient Unicompartmental Knee Replacement

NEW DATA ON 3-HOUR OUTPATIENT PARTIAL KNEE REPLACEMENT (Orthopedics This Week)
Don’t fear the outpatient experience, says the largest study ever on outpatient partial knee replacement. Robert S. Gorab, M.D. is the chief medical officer at the Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI) in Irvine, California. He tells OTW, “Our study, just published in The Journal of Arthroplasty, found that after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA), day of surgery discharge for appropriate patients can be both safe, efficient and even increase patient satisfaction. We took 160 consecutive patients with appropriate ri...