The Technique of Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Section I Preoperative Considerations1. Patient Considerations: Comorbidities and Optimization2. Modify What’s Modifiable: Smoking, Obesity, Opioid Dependence, and Nutritional Deficiencies3. Optimizing Important Comorbidities: Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Cardiac Disease4. Assessment of Surgical Difficulty5. Preoperative Planning From Medical Issues to ImplantsSection II Issues and Considerations on the Day of Surgery6. Setting Up an Outpatient or Same-Day Discharge Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) Program7. Surgical Procedure8. Bone-Cutting Technique9. TKA Balancing10. New Technology and Surgical Technique in TKA11. Cement TechniqueSection III Postoperative TKA Considerations12. Avoiding Peri- and Postoperative Management After Total Knee Arthroplasty13. Complications of Total Knee Arthroplasty and Evidence Basis for Outcomes of Knee Arthroplasty

"This second edition covers most of the important details that comprise successful total knee replacement. The accompanying ebook provides useful imaging enhancement and topic searching. The last edition was published in 1990." -©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Samuel J. Chmell, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)