Bone Cement Waste in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Preliminary Study of Scope and Cost.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical waste is both costly and detrimental to the environment, and operating room waste represents a substantial portion of this. To the authors' knowledge, bone cement waste in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has not previously been studied. The vast majority of TKA are cemented, and the volume of TKA is forecast to increase. Given this, we studied the waste resulting from the routine use of 2 40-gram bags of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) powder during cementing in primary TKA.

Methods

We first studied the yield of commercially available plain and gentamicin medium-viscosity bone cement powder and calculated the cost/gram of product. We then collected the PMMA remaining after primary TKA to determine the average amount of waste, its cost, and possible correlatio

SUBMITTER: Tompkins GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10393734 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature