How to choose a Surgeon
Below are some questions it may be worth asking your surgeon. Please don’t hesitate to contact any member of our team if you have any queries about the information.
Below are some questions it may be worth asking your surgeon. Please don’t hesitate to contact any member of our team if you have any queries about the information.
I suggest that you ask your surgeon how long they have been in independent practice (i.e. a Consultant Surgeon)
a figure of more than 10 years would indicate significant experience in this field, providing that their training involved a fellowship in this area and they have maintained sufficient volume of surgery (see below)
There is good evidence that surgeons who undertake less than 35 Hip replacement a year have poorer outcomes.
Surprisingly 54% of UK surgeons perform less than 35 hip replacements per year!
I do not doubt that there are many excellent Surgeons who may be unable to answer these questions, but given that informed consent for a Hip or Knee replacement involves intimate knowledge of such data and given that most of it is freely available and with the public domain, I would counsel caution or clarification should your surgeon be unaware of the existence of such data as it applies to them
National Association of Assistants in Surgical Practice (NAASP)
Some surgeons will not use a dedicated and trained assistant who is highly trained in Orthopaedic procedures and in my opinion, who is integral to the procedure running smoothly
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