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Thursday, October 7, 2010, 17:30-18:00Session A9: Arthroplasty OutcomesIntegrated Approach for Ortho-Sports Medicine Patient CareManagement: A Total Knee Arthoplasty Outcomes Study*Kenneth Bramlett - Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Clinic of Alabama - Birmingham, UnitedStatesDr. Rajan Grover - Infinity Healthcare Solutions, LLC. - Dallas, USA*Email: kbramlett@orthosportsalabama.comPurpose: Introduce an Integrated Approach for Orthopedic-Sports Medicine Practice and PatientCare Management that:Â� Is built around effective and efficient surgical techniques, and patient care managementprocessesÂ� Integrates Operations and Service Excellence best practices with patient caremanagement processesÂ� Integrates orthopedic care delivery between outpatient clinic, pre-surgery, surgery,inpatient, (acute care) and post acute care settingsÂ� Delivers exceptional clinical, patient satisfaction and financial outcomes as validated byindependent national healthcare benchmarking organizationÂ� Helps position Ortho-Sports medicine services for strategic growthÂ� Is replicable to develop Ortho-Sports Medicine Centers of ExcellencePresentation illustrates the ‘Ten Elements’ approach to implement the Ortho-Sports MedicineCenters of Excellence and demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach with an outcomesstudy from over 1000 total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures. During the presentation, thespeakers would share the key clinical, patient satisfaction, and financial outcomes achieved bythe implementation of the best practices defined in our ‘Ten Elements’ approach. Allperformance data elements are collected, validated and analyzed by an independent third party,national healthcare benchmarking company.During the presentation Dr. Bramlett would elaborate on the surgical protocol, and the keydifferentiating steps in procedure technique from traditional approach that significantly enhancesprocedure effectiveness, efficiency and lowers the patient complication rate as demonstrated bybenchmarking data.Speakers would further present the key elements of Total Knee Arthoplastyprocedure that focus on patient education, patient participation in pre-surgical weight loss andpre-habilitation program, anesthesia approach, avoiding tourniquet use and deep veenthrombosis (DVT) risk reduction, early post operative patient ambulation and weight bearing,and post operative patient management approach. On average the ortho-sports medicine clinicalof Alabama TKA patients are disharged from the hospital in 2.6 days, and experience 65percent less complications than expected for a similar patient population and assume earlycontrol of their independent functionality.file:///E|/ISTA2010-Abstracts.htm[12/7/2011 3:15:47 PM]