Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 27: The Institute of Orthopaedics, Joint Replacement, and Sports Injury at Apollo Spectra Hospital, Amritsar, (inside the Apollo Cradle & Children’s Hospital premises), launched a “Fast Track Knee Replacement’ program under the leadership of Dr Sumit Mahajan.
Dr Sumit Mahajan, MS, DNB, M.Ch (Orthopaedics) is fellowship-trained from AIIMS (New Delhi) and has also acquired qualifications from Germany, Singapore, UK, and many other countries in Joint Replacement and Arthroscopy. He has more than 13 years of experience and has performed approximately 9,000 plus specialized surgeries.
The Fast track program (FTK) is now a well-established approach for the patient undergoing these selective operations. The program is multimodal and multidisciplinary; involving surgeons, anaesthesiologists, physiotherapists, nurses, and even trained help. This program involves short spinal anaesthesia and local infiltrative anaesthesia (LIA) so that the whole procedure becomes painless. This minimally invasive surgery also takes the help of computers (artificial intelligence) to make sure that less bone is cut, no soft tissue is damaged, and surgery becomes faster with no blood loss and complete accuracy.
These procedures help the patient to walk within a few hours after surgery and use the toilet by themselves on the same day. The hospital stay is reduced to just 3 days as compared to 5-7 days previously. With the state-of-the-art “suture less” procedure, patients coming from distant areas do not have to visit the hospital again for suture removal.
Dr Sumit Mahajan has already performed about 200 surgeries with the same FTK protocol, with excellent results. He further states that the day is not far off, when knee replacement surgery will become a day-care procedure, as advocated in some the western countries.
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