Manipulation Under Anesthesia Rates in Technology-Assisted versus Conventional-Instrumentation Total Knee Arthroplasty.

CONCLUSION: Our study found that patients undergoing robotic-assisted TKA experienced a significant, 4.5-fold decrease in rates of manipulation under anesthesia (p=0.032). Given that MUAs can be a marker of knee stiffness following total knee arthroplasty, the lower rate indicates that study cohort patients had less knee stiffness and, therefore, greater initial postoperative range of motion than the control cohort. Based on these data, assistive technologies may have an advantageous role contributing to enhanced patient outcomes. PMID: 31747712 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Surgical Technology International - Category: Surgery Tags: Surg Technol Int Source Type: research