Migration of Hospital Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures to an Ambulatory Surgery Center Setting and Postsurgical Opioid Use: A Private Practice Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An enhanced recovery pathway using individualized multimodal pain management with scheduled nonopioid and opioid regimens previously enabled reproducible same-day discharge of Medicare beneficiaries and commercially insured patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures in the hospital or in ambulatory surgery center settings.

Objective

To analyze the migration trends for TKA and THA procedures from a hospital to an ambulatory surgery center facility and to assess perioperative outcomes before and after incorporating liposomal bupivacaine into a multimodal pain management regimen for these procedures.

Methods

This retrospective medical chart review study included patients undergoing THA or TKA with an enhanced r

SUBMITTER: Van Horne J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038002 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature