Is Knee Replacement safe for me ?

Robotic Knee replacement surgery is now a successful and precise surgery. However, once you are suggested knee replacement surgery by your doctor and you decide to go for it to get your quality of life back, We do certain routine investigations to check your heart lungs kidney and liver functions and if all that is good, the cardiologist or the physician doctor and The anaesthesiologist give the go ahead for surgery, we schedule you for the same.

Usually you will get admitted to the hospital on the morning of the surgery itself. In routine the only risks in knee replacement surgery anywhere in the world are deep vein thrombosis and infection.

With faster mobilisation and aggressive physiotherapy rehab after robotic surgery, the incidence of deep vein thrombosis has drastically dropped and we have not seen a single case of DVT in the last two years. The genuine infection rate worldwide in any good Centre with precautions like lemon airflow systems, strict operation theatre discipline, antibiotic prophylaxis is less than 0.5%. In patients who are uncontrolled diabetics or controlled long-standing diabetics the risk is maybe 1% more than the normal population.

At Nhs Ortho Robotics, we have in-house cardiology team and multi speciality back up to tackle any unforeseen medical complications that may occur to ensure that you get an excellent outcome. In short, with the advent of robotics, knee replacement surgery has become almost a daycare surgery.