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Fast-track care programs in total knee arthroplasty, incorporating new pain control and minimally invasive techniques, can help limit postoperative complications and shorten recovery time.
Fast-track care programs in total knee arthroplasty, incorporating new pain control and minimally invasive techniques, may help limit postoperative complications and shorten recovery time.
Fast-track care may limit TKA complications and speed recovery; leaves open the need for RCTs to confirm benefits.
The number of orthopedic surgeons who are convinced in the need for significant changes in planned total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is increasing slowly and steadily. A new approach to pain control has been developed over the past 10-15 years, and the introduction of techniques to reduce perioperative stress, and the use of minimally invasive surgical techniques can help limit postoperative complications and shorten recovery time. This type of optimization is regarded as Fast-track Care program, where improved healing process is particularly useful to comorbid patients.
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Kosev et al. (2015) conducted a review in Total knee arthroplasty. Fast-track Care program was evaluated. Fast-track care programs in total knee arthroplasty, incorporating new pain control and minimally invasive techniques, can help limit postoperative complications and shorten recovery time.
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