Arthroplasty News

• COVID Coverage for All Dries Up Even as Hospital Costs Rise But the virus is not contained. Safety-net hospitals and clinics are seeing sharply higher costs for basic operating expenses. They fear they won’t be prepared if there’s another surge and no backstop.
  Associated Press, May 05, 2022
• BSR 2022 Using DEXA to Grade Hip OA Could Aid Diagnosis, Prognosis A novel semiautomated scoring system enables dual energy x-ray absorptiometry scans of the hip to be graded and provide useful clinical information.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• ECCMID 2022 Rapid MRSA Decolonization Beneficial for Emergency Hip Surgery Prosthetic joint surgery infections following emergency femur fracture surgery can be avoided by screening and decolonization.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2022
• OARSI 2022 Inadequate Pain Relief in OA, High Opioid Use Before TKA Rates of inadequate pain relief in knee and hip OA, and high opioid use before total knee replacement surgery were reported in separate studies at the OARSI 2022 World Congress.
  Medscape Medical News, April 20, 2022
• OARSI 2022 Weight Gain May Exacerbate Structural Damage in Knee OA Although there have been various studies looking at weight loss and weight gain in OA, most have focused on weight loss rather than gain.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2022
• AAOS 2022 Is Aspirin the Best Way to Prevent Blood Clots After THA/TKA? Patients discharged to facilities rather than home may need more aggressive agents to prevent venous thromboembolism.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2022
• AAOS 2022 Virtual and In-Person Pediatric Visits Get Similar Family Ratings Families rate both modes of visits similarly with high satisfaction in most areas. But an expert counters that while families like the option, virtual visits miss too much.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2022
• AAOS 2022 Shoulder Arthritis Surgery: Depression Complicates Care Screening and follow-up for depression may help improve outcomes and reduce costs when patients have reverse shoulder arthroplasty for osteoarthritis, a study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2022
• AAOS 2022 TKA: Posterior-Stabilized Bearing Design Ups Revision Risk Posterior-stabilized bearings, used in more than half of total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) in the US, may increase risk for revision compared with minimally stabilized implants, registry data show.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2022
• AAOS 2022 TKA Outcomes for Age 80+ Similar to Younger Patients In a study of more than 1.7 million cases, length of hospital stay and readmission rates were only slightly higher for octogenarians than for those ages 65-79, and medical complications were similar.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2022
• Prehabilitation May Not Improve Knee Replacement Results A new study casts doubt on the value of exercises and education prescribed before total knee replacement.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2022
• Updated Perioperative Guidance Says When to Hold Antirheumatics Rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons revise advice on JAK inhibitors and add new medications.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2022
• Cementing Produces Fewer Fractures in Hemiarthroplasty Patients who undergo cemented hemiarthroplasty have a periprosthetic fracture rate that is four times lower than people whose fractures are repaired using modern uncemented devices, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, February 09, 2022
• COVID Disrupts Health Services in Over 90% of Countries: WHO Disruptions in basic health services such as vaccination programmes and treatment of diseases like AIDS were reported in 92% of 129 countries, a World Health Organization survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic showed on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, February 07, 2022
• Prosthetic Joint Infections Not Related to Invasive Dental Procedures Patients with prosthetic joints do not need antibiotics prior to an invasive dental procedure to prevent infections, a new study from the UK suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2022
• Dexamethasone Effective as an Analgesic Adjuvant in Total Knee Replacement Two doses of dexamethasone given in the perioperative period reduced morphine consumption during 48 hours after total knee arthroplasty in the randomized, placebo-controlled DEX-2-TKA trial.
  Reuters Health Information, January 14, 2022
• Duloxetine Added to Usual Care Doesn't Improve Hip, Knee OA Pain The results of a small, randomized trial could not find any benefit of duloxetine over usual care in patients with chronic knee or hip OA pain that was not improved through use of NSAIDs or acetaminophen.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2022
• Daily Show's Trevor Noah Sues NYC Hospital, Surgeon Complaint says failure to follow generally accepted "standards of care and treatment" left Noah "sick, sore, lame and disabled." Hospital says allegations are "meritless."
  Medscape Medical News, December 17, 2021
• RSNA 2021 Cooled RFA Treats Chronic Pain After Knee Replacement More than 10 months after the treatment, patients reported reduced knee pain and stiffness.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• AHA 2021 Oral Factor XIa Inhibitor Cuts Post-Op VTE Risk: AXIOMATIC-TKR Milvexian shows promise as a new oral anticoagulant, but observers say more data are needed to confirm a bleeding advantage with this emerging class of drugs.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2021