When you have elective or scheduled surgery it is important to be as healthy as you can to reduce the chance of a complication. We call this process optimizing a patient for surgery. Here I will talk to you about what we look for and why it is important.
There is a great risk tool you can use to look at your risk at the time of total joint replacement from the National Joint Registry in the UK: https://jointcalc.shef.ac.uk/
10/08/21 • 23 min
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