At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, the chair of the Digital Health & Social Media Committee Shaun P. Patel, MD and Andrew M. Schwartz, MD sat down with Jeffrey J. Barry, MD to discuss his paper, uniquely titled “Early Outcomes of “Lemon Dropped” Complex Primary Arthroplasty Patients to a Tertiary Care Center.” In this podcast, Dr. Barry shared that his study was comprised of patients that were considered “complex or complicated” patients and rejected elsewhere for various reasons, whether it was for medical or surgical reasons. His findings indicated that resource burdens doubled with these patients – double the time in the OR, double the time spent in the ED afterwards and double the length of stay time. 

Listen to the recording for more on Dr. Barry’s findings. Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:

Jeffrey J. Barry, MD
Shaun P. Patel, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Chair
Andrew M. Schwartz, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Member

At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, the chair of the Digital Health & Social Media Committee Shaun P. Patel, MD and Dustin J. Schuett, DO sat down with Joshua C. Rozell, MD  to discuss his paper presented at the meeting on how there’s additional stress on surgeons who peform surgery on patients with an elevated BMI. In Dr. Rozell’s study, he showed that additional work is required and placed on surgeons who perform these kinds of surgeries versus your standard primary knee or hip replacement surgery. The goal was to quantify and provide data showing this.

Listen to the recording for more on Dr. Rozell’s findings on the association of complex cases and how it affects the surgeon.

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In this episode:

Shaun P. Patel, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Chair
Joshua C. Rozell, MD 
Dustin J. Schuett, DO – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Member

At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, the chair of the Digital Health & Social Media Committee Shaun P. Patel, MD and Ahmed Siddiqi, MD, MBA sat down with M. Umar Burney, MD, Junaid A. Makda, MD and Khalid M. Yousuf, MD to discuss their mission work with their organization, GODA (Gifted of Disability Alleviation). GODA was started in 2014 and since then, has grown substantially. In the recording, Dr. Yousuf discussed how they’ve increased the number of surgeons who participate, the number of surgeries and how instrumental the education they provide has been for the residents. 

Listen to the recording for more on how GODA is helping people around the world with arthroplasty and other orthopaedic subspecialties. 

Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:

M. Umar Burney, MD
Junaid A. Makda, MD
Shaun P. Patel, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Chair
Ahmed Siddiqi, MD, MBA – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Member 
Khalid M. Yousuf, MD

At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, the chair of the Digital Health & Social Media Committee Shaun P. Patel, MD and Ahmed Siddiqi, MD, MBA sat down with Drake G. LeBrun, MD and Brian P. Chalmers, MD to discuss their paper presented at the meeting on Does Melatonin Improve Subjective Sleep Quality after TKA? A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial. 

This study was ignited from hearing so many patients complain about their quality of sleep following surgery. Drs. LeBrun and Chalmers noticed large improvements over the years in pain control, range of motion, function and things like that, but very little relating to improving sleep for patients. 

Take a listen and find out if melatonin improves the quality of sleep for patients who recently undergone surgery. We think you’ll find this recording and results very fascinating. Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:

Brian P. Chalmers, MD 
Drake G. LeBrun, MD 
Shaun P. Patel, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Chair
Ahmed Siddiqi, MD, MBA – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Member 

AAHKS Diversity Advisory Group Co-Chair, Muyibat A. Adelani, MD, sat down with Michael Mont, MD, the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Arthroplasty (JOA) to discuss the purpose of AAHKS’ Diversity Advisory Group (DAB) which is to promote diversity and inclusion within AAHKS. They also discussed and summarized five articles on diversity that was recently published in a JOA issue. Dr. Mont posed very interesting questions that ignited a healthy conversation such as what are the major issues in diversity, are things going in the right direction and what can surgeons do from an educational standpoint to help?

Take a listen, we think you’ll find this recording very fascinating. Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:

Muyibat A. Adelani, MD – Diversity Advisory Group, Co-Chair
Michael Mont, MD – The Journal of Arthroplasty, Editor-in-Chief

Last year, Dr. Krueger sat down with James I. Huddleston, III, MD to discuss the release of the 10th annual report of the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR). In this recording, they talked about the conception of the registry in 2012, and how it began with surgeons wanting to get an idea of what was being placed in patients in the United States.

In the most recent registry release, there’s reporting of over 3 million primary and revision hip and knee replacements performed in the United States at 4500 hospitals and ambulatory health centers. A great deal of data was collected, so what was intended, was achieved. Dr. Huddleston also discussed how AJRR works, the updates made to the registry and how they are consistently making improvements so more surgeons can contribute. Click here to view the full AJRR Annual Report.

Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:

James I. Huddleston, III, MD 
Chad Krueger, MD 

One of AAHKS’ newest awards, the Industry Innovation Award is a competitive product award for companies exhibiting at the AAHKS Annual Meeting. It recognizes cutting-edge innovation in the field of orthopaedic hip and knee arthroplasty by exhibitors. At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, OrthAlign received the award and we had the wonderful opportunity of sitting down with members from the company to hear more about their award-winning product.

Take a listen, we think you’ll find their product fascinating.

Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:

Nick Aldrich – Vice President of Marketing, OrthAlign
Michael Ast, MD – OrthAlign
Cory L. Calendine, MD – Industry Relations Committee, Chair
James B. Chen, MD – OrthAlign
Eric Timko – President of OrthAlign

One of AAHKS’ newest awards, the Industry Innovation Award is a competitive product award for companies exhibiting at the AAHKS Annual Meeting. It recognizes cutting-edge innovation in the field of orthopaedic hip and knee arthroplasty by exhibitors. At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, Force Therapeutics received the award and we had the wonderful opportunity of sitting down with the companies CEO to hear more about their award-winning product.

Take a listen, we think you’ll find their product fascinating.

Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:

Cory L. Calendine, MD – Industry Relations Committee, Chair
Mark Lieberman – President and Founder of Force Therapeutics

At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, the chair of the Digital Health & Social Media Committee Shaun P. Patel, MD and Russell Bodner, MD sat down with our Clinical Research Award winner Marcus C. Ford, MD to discuss his award-winning study. In this episode of AAHKS Amplified, Dr. Ford discussed the widely use of perioperative tranexamic acid (TXA) with TKA and how this study aimed to investigate the safety and clinical efficacy of extended postoperative oral TXA use in TKA.

Take a listen, we think you’ll find the results to be very astounding. Click here to view the paper abstract.

Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:
Russell Bodner, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Member 
Marcus C. Ford, MD – AAHKS Clinical Research Award Recipient 
Shaun P. Patel, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Chair

At the 2023 AAHKS Annual Meeting, the chair of the Digital Health & Social Media Committee Shaun P. Patel, MD and Nathaniel J. Nelms, MD sat down with our Surgical Techniques & Technology Award winner Christopher M. Melnic, MD to discuss his award-winning study. In this episode of AAHKS Amplified, Dr. Melnic shares that his study aimed to assess the effects of inferior screw placement on acetabular component failure following revision THA and it’s believed that inferior screw fixation will decrease acetabular failure rates.

Take a listen and we think you’ll find the results to be very astounding. Click here to view the paper abstract. 

Enjoy, and thanks for listening to AAHKS Amplified!

In this episode:
Christopher M. Melnic, MD – AAHKS Surgical Techniques & Technologies Award Winner 
Nathaniel J. Nelms, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Member 
Shaun P. Patel, MD – Digital Health & Social Media Committee, Chair 

In this episode of Amplified, Dr. Rana hosts Dr. Huddleston and Dr. Sterling to discuss the new mandatory Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Inpatient Quality Reporting Total Hip and Knee Replacement PROMs Performance Measure (IQR THA/TKA PRO-PM) for THA and TKA that is being implemented this year. The goal of this measure is to […]