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Offers�comprehensive and expert coverage�of both inpatient and outpatient primary TKA, now fully revised with�new chapters�on Patient Considerations, Modifications, Optimizing the Important Comorbidities, TKA Balancing, and more.�
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Addresses�key issues of patient optimization�such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and peripheral vascular disease.�
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Provides�evidence for TKA outcomes and complications: "What do I tell my patient?��
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Focuses on the�latest and best techniques and surgical approaches, including computer and robotic assisted surgery, uncemented TKA, assessing and planning for the difficult TKA, outpatient TKA considerations, and preventing readmissions post-surgery.�
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Discusses�how to handle all deformity aspects of the lower extremity, bone defects, and ligamentous insufficiency during surgery.��
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Includes�numerous�illustrations, line art, radiographs, and clinical photos for optimal visualization of each procedure.�
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Enhanced eBook version included with purchase.�Your enhanced eBook allows you to access�all of�the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.�
Table of Contents
Section I Preoperative Considerations1. Patient Considerations: Comorbidities and Optimization
2. Modify What's Modifiable: Smoking, Obesity, Opioid Dependence, and Nutritional Deficiencies
3. Optimizing Important Comorbidities: Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Cardiac Disease
4. Assessment of Surgical Difficulty
5. Preoperative Planning From Medical Issues to Implants
Section II Issues and Considerations on the Day of Surgery
6. Setting Up an Outpatient or Same-Day Discharge Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) Program
7. Surgical Procedure
8. Bone-Cutting Technique
9. TKA Balancing
10. New Technology and Surgical Technique in TKA
11. Cement Technique
Section III Postoperative TKA Considerations
12. Avoiding Peri- and Postoperative Management After Total Knee Arthroplasty
13. Complications of Total Knee Arthroplasty and Evidence Basis for Outcomes of Knee Arthroplasty
Index
