Surgical Pearls for Knee Replacement in Patients With Obesity
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At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Understand the surgical and medical risks in patients with elevated BMI and how to counsel patients on these risks in an empathetic manner.
Discuss preoperative strategies to optimize patients and reduce risk prior total joint arthroplasty.
Describe surgical techniques to reduce intraoperative risk for obese patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty.
Listen to Ben Oliverre, Sam Patton and Nick Clement in the first episode of our special podcast series, kindly sponsored by Stryker. This episode focuses predominantly on total knee replacement and partial knee replacement.
Listen to Andrew Duckworth, Fares Haddad, Nick Clements and Mark Blyth discuss the paper 'Robotic arm-assisted versus manual unicompartmental knee arthroplasty' published in the May 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal.
