the swift path method is changing how joint replacement are done by decreasing the length of stay, improving the patient experience and lowering costs. It focuses on the patient as the most valuable member of the recovery team.
I wonder if this is another name for the bundled Medicare approach, rather than the name of a surgical technique. More money to the hospital for taking better care of you, less if they do not, in the first 90 days. Something like that.
SuperPath is interesting ... here is a Chinese study. Per the study, the SuperPath method was developed In China.
Oops. Dr. James Chow’s undergraduate degree was from Stanford University in Engineering, product development, before he went on to medical school, in Chicago. Then he did a special fellowship with Dr. Stephen B Murphy, the SuperCap inventor (back in 2003). He is a co-inventor in the SuperPath surgery with Dr. Stephen B Murphy, of New England Baptist Hospital in Boston.
Their technique, is based on the original Path surgery of Dr. Brad Peneberg, ( Who has amazing medical education credentials with an office in Beverly Hills.)
Murphy was an undergraduate in mechanic engineering at Dartmouth. Brilliant folks. All American educated.
Short story, although patients could walk a bit sooner, unassisted,
by one year, they were comparable to other surgery approaches. There are some other advantages, but not many independent studies to validate anyone surgical approach is better than another, with large groups of patients.
The research on the SuperPath technique you cited was performed in China, as a small comparison study. There is an on going study in Novia Scotia comparing the same “type” of this surgery, which goes by various names, including Direct Superior and Northern Approach, I believe, compared to the anterior approach, I believe. It may be funded by the NIH as a clinical trial. My memory is old on this.
I looked into Dr. Chow and Dr. Murphy before deciding on someone in my state who also does this technique, as Direct Superior/Northern Approach.