1st outpatient hip replacement performed in New York City

FIRST OUTPATIENT HIP REPLACEMENT IN NYC (Orthopedics This Week)
NYU Langone Medical Center has become the first academic medical center in New York City to initiate an outpatient hip replacement program! Roy I. Davidovitch, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of the Hip Center at NYU Langone, performed a minimally invasive anterior approach hip replacement in January; two additional patients have successfully undergone the surgery.
“With advances in soft-tissue-sparing techniques such as the anterior approach and innovative pain management protoco...