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Old 09-20-2009, 09:58 PM
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hip replacement as out patient?

I had a fellow tell me at the Y the other day that he knew people who had had hip replacement as an out patient.

I cannot imagine that ....does anybody here know someone who did?

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No. But I have a friend going in for a three level cervical fusion next Monday as outpatient. Seems dicey to me. I stayed in one night with my cervical spine surgery.
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Old 09-21-2009, 12:38 AM
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Obamacare!

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I had a fellow tell me at the Y the other day that he knew people who had had hip replacement as an out patient.

I cannot imagine that ....does anybody here know someone who did?
Not yet but it's coming, Obamacare!
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Old 09-21-2009, 12:40 AM
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Obamacare!
Free hip replacement with trade in of a refrigerator. All X-rays done at the airport.
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Old 09-21-2009, 01:07 AM
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Unlikely as "out patient" since the risk of post op complications can be fairly huge; factor in that most hip replacements are typically done on way over AARP membership limits.
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Old 09-21-2009, 09:44 AM
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Not yet but it's coming, Obamacare!
I have news for you, this started when Bush the butthead was in office.
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Old 09-21-2009, 09:55 AM
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Not yet but it's coming, Obamacare!
Gone are the days when we could rely on generosity of the nice folks at the health insurance companies. With them it's always, "Oh, you prefer to stay another day or two in the hospital? Sure, tell them to send us the bill."

Back to the original post, though, I would be surprised that a surgeon would allow a hip replacement patient to go home the same day. Doesn't that surgery carry a high risk of pulmonary embolism? For that reason alone, I think they would want the patient to remain flat on his or her back for a while after the surgery.

On the other hand, I am all in favor of getting the h*ll out a hospital as quick as you can. Bad things happen in hospitals.
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Old 09-21-2009, 10:37 AM
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Google minimally invasive hip replacement or ask a doctor.....Preferally an orthopedic surgeon, I am astounded my how inept some GP's are these days. I told a client GP about my disc replacement and he insisted that I was confused with fusion.

My multi level disc replacement could have easily been out patient and in maybe now.

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Old 09-21-2009, 10:37 AM
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No. But I have a friend going in for a three level cervical fusion next Monday as outpatient. Seems dicey to me. I stayed in one night with my cervical spine surgery.
Why fusion?
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Old 09-21-2009, 10:38 AM
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Free hip replacement with trade in of a refrigerator. All X-rays done at the airport.
And they'll throw in a "cat-scan" if the thing isn't rabid, it's been de-clawed and "fixed"...there's nothing worse than your "cat" dribbling rabid-foam, from its mouth, on your open wounds. It would then "suck" to be you!!!
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I have news for you, this started when Bush the butthead was in office.
Yeah...I seem to remember that "BUSH BUTT-YO'BUTT'OUTTA'DA'HOSPITAL" bill when it was signed back in...er...oh...when the hell was that? 2000-never?

OH! OH! WAIT! I REMEMBER NOW!!! Didn't Bush II. "Executive Order" shorter stays at hospitals 'cause of 9-11???

Yeah...right...

This started when the Congress let insurance regulations become relaxed...and Congress was dominated by what?

Let's hear it...Congress was dominated by who?

I thought so...
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Old 09-21-2009, 11:02 AM
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Why fusion?
MM..

If I'm correct I think the CC was among the first of a dozen or so hospitals in the US to participate in the initial trials of artificial discs in this country. This was maybe five or six years ago.

I'm just guessin here, but not all hospitals offer it and certainly not all orthopoedic surgeons know how to do it. (You know, the old guys.)
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Old 09-21-2009, 11:24 AM
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MM..

If I'm correct I think the CC was among the first of a dozen or so hospitals in the US to participate in the initial trials of artificial discs in this country. This was maybe five or six years ago.

I'm just guessin here, but not all hospitals offer it and certainly not all orthopoedic surgeons know how to do it. (You know, the old guys.)
CC, UofM and military hospitals were the first, ironicly the older orthopedist are the ones doing the surgery since the implant companies often tap the most experienced orthopedist for new procedures. I my experiences may also be skewed a bit as well since Lansing/East Lansing is ground zero for orthopedic innovation.
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Old 09-21-2009, 11:37 AM
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I find it "interesting" that my posts "seem" to be getting shorter as the weekends get longer...

I'm wondering if this isn't some form of "censoring" that is acceptable to the majority on this website...or at least the "Obamanites" that have reign on all that type and pontificate here...

Would anyone care to, at least, send a PM to those that are "shortened" (as if I need to be made any shorter than the 5'5" that GOD has granted me the priviledge to possess?), explaining the reasoning for editing out major portions of postings so that the original post now represents some sort of incoherent "rant" or "blurb" that has nothing to do with what was said in the original context?
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Old 09-21-2009, 11:53 AM
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Why fusion?
Good question. I don't think I would do it. I talked to him a lot. Insurance denied coverage to have the non-fusion I had done in Pittsburgh. Said the surgeon was outside of the network even though we have the same insurance and they covered mine as in-network. His surgeon says that three level cervical disc replacement can't be done, hence the fusion.

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