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The Pathophysiologic Events of Total Joint Replacement Surgery

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Patients undergoing orthopedic surgery are subject to many perioperative insults. Unique to this patient population however is the intravasation of bone, cement, and marrow during the surgical instrumentation process that occurs frequently and may contribute to the pathophysiology of complications seen in the perioperative period. The risk of perioperative complications may be dependent on the level of the operative insult on one hand and end-organ reserve on the other. Identifying interventions that can reduce perioperative insults and instituting programs to identify patients at risk may result in a decrease in the odds for perioperative complications. This chapter explores possible sources of injury and related processes and attempts to relate them to complications frequently seen in orthopedic patients.

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Memtsoudis, S.G. (2020). The Pathophysiologic Events of Total Joint Replacement Surgery. In: MacKenzie, C., Cornell, C., Memtsoudis, S. (eds) Perioperative Care of the Orthopedic Patient. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35570-8_5

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