This procedure was the first outpatient hip replacement successfully completed at an academic medical center in New York and the patient was able to return home the same day of surgery.
Here are five things to know about the procedure:
• Roy I. Davidovitch, MD, performed the anterior approach for the hip replacement procedure in January.
• Since the first procedure, two more procedures have successfully undergone outpatient hip replacement surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center.
• The surgeries were completed in the morning — by 9 a.m. — and then the patients had time to recover and mobilize at the hospital before they returned home.
• Visiting nurses and physical therapists visited the patients at home the day after surgery and intermittently for the first two weeks postoperatively.
• The procedure is designed to return patients to normal activity within six weeks.
Dr. Davidovitch was the first surgeon in NYC to perform the minimally invasive anterior hip replacement approach and has performed more than 1,000 of those procedures since.
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