Explosion of Hip Revisions: How to Handle Them (Orthopedics This Week)
There is at least one doctor at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) who is righting an increasing number of surgical wrongs. Geoffrey H. Westrich, M.D. is Research Director of the Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement Service at HSS. Dr. Westrich has found himself being sought after for hip revisions, doing several per month on patients who fly in from all across the country. He told OTW, “I’ve just published an article in Arthroplasty on how to approach recalled hip replacements. The original idea was to allow surgeons...
The Orthopedics Industry 