RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME OF TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT IN RURAL TEACHING SETUP
- Department of Orthopaedics, Parul Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
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Background:Indian population is mainly residing in two areas- urban and rural. The literature has shown consistent results following knee joint replacement surgeries, however these studies have been done in highly efficient and equipped hospitals in urban areas.
Aim: The aim of this study was to compare outcome at a rural set-up with those at a high-end teaching or corporate hospital in urban set-up from published literature. Materials and Methods: This study was an observational and retrospective analysis. Observation data was collected from January, 2020 and April, 2021. This study included follow-up of 60 total knee joint replacements.
Results: In our study of total knee joint replacement surgeries in rural teaching set- up, we achieved 95.39% results (excellent) while the remaining 4.61% results were good.
Conclusion: This study confirmed that results of total knee replacement are comparable to any other highly well equipped urban center, if all basic surgical principles including aseptic precautions are stringently followed-up. Further the clinical outcomes in our cases was more surgeon dependent rather than technology dependent as all surgeries were performed by one single surgeon.
[Ketas Mahajan (2021); RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME OF TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT IN RURAL TEACHING SETUP Int. J. of Adv. Res. 9 (Dec). 222-226] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Parul Sevashram Hospital
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