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The effect of triclosan coated sutures on rate of Surgical Site Infection after hip and knee replacement : a protocol for a double-blind randomised controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: 187,000 hip and knee joint replacements are performed every year in the National Health Service (NHS). One of the commonest complications is surgical site infection (SSI), and this represents a significant burden in terms of patient ...
Reed, Mike R.   +19 more
core   +2 more sources

Implementation of outpatient hip and knee arthroplasty in a multicenter public healthcare setting

open access: yesActa Orthopaedica
Background and purpose: Length of hospital stay after hip and knee arthroplasty is about 1 day in Denmark with few patients discharged on the day of surgery.
Oddrún Danielsen   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does BMI influence hospital stay and morbidity after fast-track hip and knee arthroplasty?

open access: yesActa Orthopaedica, 2016
Background and purpose — Body mass index (BMI) outside the normal range possibly affects the perioperative morbidity and mortality following total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in traditional care programs.
Henrik Husted   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decreased risk of knee buckling with adductor canal block versus femoral nerve block in total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesArthroplasty Today, 2017
Background: Femoral nerve (FNB) and adductor canal blocks (ACB) are used in the setting of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), but neither has been demonstrated to be clearly superior.
Ryan R. Thacher, BA   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Standardized loads acting in knee implants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The loads acting in knee joints must be known for improving joint replacement, surgical procedures, physiotherapy, biomechanical computer simulations, and to advise patients with osteoarthritis or fractures about what activities to avoid. Such data would
Bergmann, Georg   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (NARA) collaboration on demographics, methods and revision rates in knee arthroplasty: a register-based study from NARA 2000–2017

open access: yesActa Orthopaedica, 2022
Background and purpose: We have previously observed differences in treatment and outcome of knee arthroplasties in the Nordic countries. To evaluate the impact of Nordic collaboration in the last 15 years we aimed to compare patient demographics ...
Tero Irmola   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of cumulative physical work load in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis : a case-control study in Germany [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Objectives To examine the dose-response relationship between cumulative exposure to kneeling and squatting as well as to lifting and carrying of loads and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) in a population-based case-control study.
Nasreddin Abolmaali   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Feasibility of a prospective multicenter observational study—is diabetes a risk factor in ERAS joint arthroplasty?

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies
Background Diabetes mellitus is a surgical risk factor, yet perioperative diabetes management remains debated, with inconsistent guidelines and limited consideration on the implementation of “enhanced recovery after surgery” (ERAS) programs.
Luma Mahmoud Issa   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deep Learning Pose Estimation for Phenotyping of Co‐Occurring Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore whether routine outpatient video combined with deep learning‐based pose estimation and clinically interpretable kinematic features can support multi‐label phenotyping of co‐occurring hyperkinetic movement disorders (HMDs).
Laura Cif   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infection burden in total hip and knee arthroplasties: an international registry-based perspective

open access: yesArthroplasty Today, 2017
Background: Infection remains a leading cause of failure of hip and knee replacements. Infection burden is the ratio of implants revised for infection to the total number of arthroplasties in a specific period, measuring the steady state of infection in ...
Bryan D. Springer, MD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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