VIDEO: Rapid recovery protocols enhance outpatient TJA experience
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Key takeaways:
- Primary total joint arthroplasty has become an outpatient procedure.
- Rapid recovery protocols reduce length of stay and get patients back to their activities of daily living.
WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Adolph V. Lombardi Jr., MD, discussed how surgeons can supplement the outpatient total joint arthroplasty process with rapid recovery protocols.
“It starts when you initially see the patient. You have to have that discussion with the patient that TJAs have become an outpatient procedure,” he said. “Patients are going to come in asking you if they are going to go home just like their nearest relative [or] friend. And patients like to go home [after surgery]. I don’t buy into the fact that patients don’t like to go home. They do,” Lombardi added.
“We are seeing our patients go through a rapid recovery protocol and getting back to doing many of their activities of daily living in that 2- to 3-week period,” he said.
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Lombardi Jr, AV. Rapid recovery protocols. Presented at: Orthopedics Today Hawaii; Jan. 7-11, 2024; Wailea, Hawaii.
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