Award-winning study identifies patient conditions that warrant caution for short-stay TJA (Healio)
Older patients, those with a BMI or diabetes were not linked with an increased risk for perioperative medical complications.
Researchers of an award-winning study found chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease and cirrhosis were independent risk factors for a late complication after primary total joint arthroplasty. Having just one of these risk factors was linked with a 50% chance such a complication would occur.
“A significant number of major comp...
