New Patient Education from AAHKS: Infection Risk

Mar 8, 2018 | Education

Here is an excerpt from the latest article, “Decreasing Your Infection Risk,” published by the AAHKS Patient and Public Relations Committee. Infection is a difficult problem that affects one out of 100 people after joint replacement surgery. If your joint becomes...

What Patients are Viewing: Younger Patients Receiving TJA

Mar 8, 2018 | Research

CNN aired a story this week that reports the average age of patients who elect to have total joint replacement surgery is decreasing. Citing the study “Changing Demographics in Primary and Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty, 2000-2014,” presented at the American...

Call for Submissions for AAHKS 2018

Mar 2, 2018 | Annual Meeting

The AAHKS Annual Meeting Program Committee invites abstract submissions, symposium proposals and surgical technique video proposals for the 2018 AAHKS Annual Meeting. All submissions are due by June 1, 2018. Submit high-quality scientific and socioeconomic abstracts,...

Timely JOA Article on Safe Discharge

Mar 2, 2018 | Publications, Research

An article-in-press in the Journal of Arthroplasty, “Can Total Knee Arthroplasty Be Performed Safely as an Outpatient in the Medicare Population?” features a study comparing the complication rates between outpatient, short-stay and inpatient total knee arthroplasty...
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