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Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester announces its Joint Solutions Program has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for both hip and knee replacements. New Rochelle, NY (PRWEB) February 01, 2013 Sound Shore Medical Center (SSMC) is pleased to announce that its new program for individuals choosing hip and knee replacement surgery has earned the Gold Seal of Approval® from The Joint Commission as a certified center of excellence. This achievement makes SSMC...

Life-altering surgeries to restore mobility, provide pain relief for more than 200 individuals on Dec. 7 ROSEMONT, Ill., Dec. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While more than one million hip and knee replacements are performed in the U.S. each year, countless men and women continue to live with severe arthritic pain and immobility because they cannot afford joint replacement surgery. Through the 2nd annual Operation Walk USA, more than 109 orthopaedic surgeons, at 49 hospitals in...

NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using regional anesthesia rather than general anesthesia reduces the need for blood transfusions in patients undergoing bilateral total knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery, in New York City. Currently, the majority of bilateral knee replacements in the United States (as well as single knee replacements) are performed under general anesthesia, and researchers say that a regional anesthesia...

Total knee replacement is a very common and safe surgery that’s used to relieve severe pain and disability caused by knee osteoarthritis, and to improve patients’ quality of life. However, it’s also very expensive at approximately $15,000 per procedure. With an estimated 600,000 total knee replacements performed annually in the United States, the aggregate annual cost for total knee replacement (also known as total knee arthroplasty or TKA) is $9 billion. Researchers at the...

Roughly 3 percent of patients who undergo total hip and knee replacement surgery require critical care services before they are discharged from the hospital, according to an analysis of roughly half a million patients. The study, published online in advance of print in the July issue of the journal Anesthesiology, demonstrates that these elective surgeries are placing an increasing burden on the critical care services of the health care system and hospitals should respond proactively....

These are very commonly performed surgeries – half a million knee replacements and 200,000 hip replacements are performed in the United States annually. They are much safer, more durable and more effective procedures than in the past. Cleveland, Ohio (PRWEB) May 18, 2012 Medications. Physical therapy. Steroid injections. Many people try them all, but their joint pain always seems to come back. Joint replacement surgery could be an option, though, naturally, many patients are...

First results from High Value Healthcare Collaborative lead to improvements in care Five leading health systems are changing aspects of how they perform total knee replacements, as a result of data they collected that showed variations in length of stay, length of operating room time, and in-hospital complications. The voluntary testing of clinical measures and processes they identified as potential "best practices" is a step toward their goal of higher quality care, at lower cost....

NEWTOWN, Conn., Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- An analysis of more than 51,000 cases of total knee replacements over a two and a half year period, for Medicare and commercially insured plan members, found that (1) commercial payers spend an average $3,200 (15%) more per procedure than Medicare, mostly due to higher inpatient stay costs, and (2) that Medicare and commercial payers could save between 5% and 10% of their current case costs by reducing spending on potentially avoidable...

WINFIELD, Ill., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with hip and knee replacements can now determine over time how the implant is interacting with their body thanks to a new tracking system being used by Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (MOR) physicians. Drs. Scott Sporer and Wayne Paprosky, MOR hip and knee orthopaedic surgeons, are the first in the country to implant all compliant patients with radiostereometric analysis (RSA) beads, which monitor if a replacement implant is...

Incidence of knee arthroplasty higher in women Researchers in Finland found that annual cumulative incidences of partial and total knee arthroplasty, commonly known as knee replacement surgery, rose rapidly over a 27-year period among 30 to 59 year-olds in that country, with the greatest increase occurring in patients aged 50 to 59 years. According to the study published today in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), incidences...