Outpatient Care

DALLAS — Results presented here showed lower outpatient arthroplasty risk assessment score prior to total joint arthroplasty was predictive of same- and next-day discharge and fewer complications and readmissions.

PHILADELPHIA — In this video from the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Alberto E. Ardon, MD, FASA, discusses the impact of modern regional anesthesia techniques in outpatient arthroplasty.

SAN DIEGO — During 2019 and 2020, patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension lost around 8% of available workdays, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Compared with a traditional postoperative opioid regimen, a multimodal pain management regimen increased satisfaction for patients who underwent outpatient orthopedic hand or wrist surgery, according to published results.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed shoulder and elbow procedures for Medicare patients performed at ASCs had greater cost savings compared with the same procedures performed at hospital outpatient departments.

According to results published in The Journal of Arthroplasty, patients who received an enhanced recovery protocol had safe same-day discharge and improved functional outcomes after outpatient simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty.

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.

Published results showed spinal and general anesthesia were associated with high rates of successful same-day discharge among patients who underwent outpatient total joint arthroplasty at a free-standing ASC.

Few adverse events following outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy containing cefazolin and ceftriaxone were identified using routine laboratory monitoring, leading researchers to say the practice may be “excessive.”

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Kerry Reynolds, MD, about immunotherapy-related adverse events, creating educational resources on immunotherapy management and more.