New technique in knee replacement surgery

Dr Neeraj Bansal, director, Orthopaedics and Joint Replacement, Orison Super Speciality Hospital, has been able to make a patient walk after just four hours of total knee replacement surgery.

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The patient was able to walk with almost no pain. The surgery was done without stitches, minimal blood loss, shorter recovery period and improved flexibility.

This new technique has been hitherto only prevalent in the United States of America to date.

 Dr Bansal said,” In this new total knee replacement, a special anaesthesia is used. Smaller incisions are made and quadriceps muscle is spared which allows a patient to walk within four hours of surgery.” 

“In fact, this technique drastically reduces the patient’s recovery time at the hospital. As a result, it  allows the patient to go home within 48 hours of the surgery,” he said.

Addict gets new lease of life

Ludhiana: Drug addiction has become a menace in Punjab which needs to be curbed at the earliest. In one such case, Narinder Singh (27), who was an opioid addict, got his scarf struck in a fodder cutting machine which led to complete tracheal transection.

Narinder came to SPS Hospital in a very serious condition and his tracheostomy was done by Dr Rajeev Kapila.

“Doctors were unaware of the fact that he is a drug addict. He got very restless and violent during the procedure due to withdrawal symptoms. Once trachestomy was done he could not speak and trachea was still resected,” said Dr Kapila

Dr Sandeep Goyal, senior psychiatrist, intervened and slowly started tapering the drug doses. After two weeks of exhaustive counselling and treatment, the doctors were able to do definitive surgery which went very well and the patient recovered slowly both from tracheal injury and drug addiction.