VIDEO: Surgeon physiologic stress may increase with patient BMI during THA
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Key takeaways:
- Surgeons had higher physiologic stress when performing total hip arthroplasty on patients with higher BMI.
- Surgeons required about 310 calories to perform total hip arthroplasty.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — In this video, Joshua C. Rozell, MD, discusses the physiologic burden on surgeons performing total hip arthroplasty and how this burden increases with patient BMI.
“The amount of physiologic stress was affected by patients who had higher BMI in terms of caloric expenditure, stress index and heart rate,” Rozell, from NYU Langone Health, told Healio. “In terms of reimbursement models for surgeons who perform total hip arthroplasty on patients who are of a higher BMI, these reimbursement models should incorporate the amount of physiologic stress that is required to perform these surgeries.”
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Ashkenazi I, et al. Paper 14. Presented at: American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting; Nov. 2-5, 2023; Grapevine, Texas.
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