W
hen can I go home? That was often the first ques-
tion our hip replacement patients asked the morn-
ing after surgery, when we walked into their
rooms to find them already up and out of bed. We
had a good sense then that treating hip replace-
ments as outpatient procedures was at least possible, but it still took
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Keys to
Success With
Same-Day
Total Hips
A surgeon looks back on 100 outpatient hip replacements.
Richard B. Schultz, MD | Round Rock, Texas
Jason
Bohn