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Not everyone will be a candidate for outpatient total joint replacement.
Elie Ghanem, MD discusses how we screen patients for different factors such as motivation, physical conditioning, family and social support, and general medical condition. He shares how we have collaborated with our partners in anesthesia to afford our patients high quality pain control via spinals and peripheral nerve blocks while allowing them to ambulate aggressively with PT/OT in order to meet their needs at home. |