Kimgrif
junior member
Hi all!
My sister is going to be undergoing a knee surgery on 01/21/09 that, from what I can tell, is basically going to be a knee replacement without the prosthesis. They'll be shaving and grinding the bones in the joint, straightening her leg, and they'll also be pinning down the tendon that holds the patella in place. (She has problems with her patella dislocating chronically).
They are doing this on an outpatient basis, meaning she'll go home after surgery with a drain in her knee.
I told her I thought she was crazy to be going home so soon, and she told me that the physician's assistant there told her that now TOTAL knee replacements were being done on a same-day, outpatient basis now too. Having just had a RTKR in August, I cannot imagine going home immediately after surgery!
Has anyone else heard of TKRs being done on a same-day, outpatient basis? Does this sound as crazy to anyone else as it does to me?
My sister is going to be undergoing a knee surgery on 01/21/09 that, from what I can tell, is basically going to be a knee replacement without the prosthesis. They'll be shaving and grinding the bones in the joint, straightening her leg, and they'll also be pinning down the tendon that holds the patella in place. (She has problems with her patella dislocating chronically).
They are doing this on an outpatient basis, meaning she'll go home after surgery with a drain in her knee.
I told her I thought she was crazy to be going home so soon, and she told me that the physician's assistant there told her that now TOTAL knee replacements were being done on a same-day, outpatient basis now too. Having just had a RTKR in August, I cannot imagine going home immediately after surgery!
Has anyone else heard of TKRs being done on a same-day, outpatient basis? Does this sound as crazy to anyone else as it does to me?