Biloine W. Young
What are the reasons for hospital readmission following hip and knee joint replacement surgeries? To find out a group of physicians in Canada examined a national database of more than 58,000 hip and knee replacement surgeries and published their results in The Journal of Arthroplasty.
According to Brad Tritle, writing in Vitaphone Health Solutions, in the case of almost 20,000 elective hip replacement patients the top five causes of hospital readmission were a complication of the internal orthopedic device, a complication of the procedure (probably infection), another medical issue , heart failure and, in last place, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
