Anesthesia Choices Matter: What You Need to Know Before Outpatient Joint Surgery

The specific medications you and your surgical team need to discuss before heading into the OR.

Following 25 years of programmatic evolution and innovation, modern, evidence-based care and coordination for early discharge has become the desired standard of care in total joint arthroplasty (TJA).

With increasing utilization of the outpatient setting to perform hip and knee arthroplasty, acute postoperative urinary retention (POUR) has emerged as one of the most prevalent barriers to successful same-day discharge.

It can result in pathologic bladder distention and injury, urinary tract infection (with possible hematogenous periprosthetic infection), and catheterization-related complications.