VIDEO: Postoperative calls may guide recovery after minor in-office hand surgery
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Key takeaways:
- About 10% of patients had concerns regarding the recovery period after minor in-office hand surgery.
- Calling patients the day after in-office hand surgery may help guide the recovery process.
SAN FRANCISCO — Results showed calling patients the day after minor in-office hand surgery may help guide the recovery process and reorient unhelpful catastrophic thoughts, especially among patients with concerns about recovery.
“The results of this study make me encourage you all to consider setting up someone on your staff or someone on your team to call patients the day after [surgery], see how they are doing and if they are having concerns, maybe speak to the surgeon directly. I think it goes a long way to facilitate in their recovery,” David C. Ring, MD, hand and orthopedic surgeon and associate dean for comprehensive care at Dell Medical School at UT Austin, told Healio about results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.
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Ring DC, et al. Paper 232. Presented at: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting; Feb. 12-16, 2024; San Francisco.
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