Ebook Outline

A comprehensive guide to hip replacement coming soon.

• Introduction
• History
• Anatomy
• Causes For Hip Replacement
• Symptoms
• Diagnosis
• Medical Treatment
• Surgery
  • Rationale
  • Decisions: indication/contraindications
  • Pre-operative Preparation
    • personal
    • doctor
    • physiotheraphy
    • Blood Donation
  • The Artificial Hip Joint, called a prosthesis
    • Material
    • Design
  • types
    • approach-normal/mis
    • prosthesis-un-/cemented
  • The Operation
    • Approach & Exposure
    • Preparation of Femur/Acetabulum
    • Acetabular Components
    • Femoral Components
• Complications of Total Hip Replacement
  • nerve injury
  • vascular injury
  • Bleeding and Hematoma
  • urinary tract complications
  • limb length discrepancy
  • Dislocation of the joint
  • heterotopic classification
  • Thrombophlebitis
  • Fractures
  • Loosening of the joint
  • Infection in the joint
  • Osteolysis
  • Stem Failure
• After Care
  • first day
  • first week
  • first month
  • first year
• lifestyle changes
  • using walking aids
  • stairs: up/down
  • sitting
  • toileting
  • bathing
  • sleeping
  • getting in/out car
  • walking
• advice specific to disease
  • degenerative arthritis
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • avascular necrosis
  • protrusion acetabuli
  • developmental dysplasia
  • post-traumatic disorders
    • femoral
    • fractures,acetabular fractures
  • metabolic disorders
    • paget's
    • gaucher's
    • sickle cell disease
    • chronic renal failure
    • hemophilia
  • infectious disorders
    • pyogenic
    • tuberculosis
  • tumors
  • neurological disorders
• revision arthroplasty
• research
• resources