California Orthopaedic Association 2018 - Outpatient Total Knee Arthroplasty .

At the recent California Orthopaedic Association meeting, Dr. Armin Arshi from the UCLA School of Medicine presented his group’s work on outcomes following outpatient total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The relevance of this topic is highlighted by the expectation that the number of TKA procedures will increase over the coming decades, which will have a considerable impact on healthcare costs and hospital resource allocation. In the following presentation, Dr. Arshi compares the complication rates of outpatient versus inpatient TKA using registry data from 133,342 TKA patients