Both younger and elderly patients in pain are willing to undergo knee replacement despite the COVID-19 pandemic: a study on surgical waiting lists.
Enrique Gomez BarrenaIsrael Rubio-SaezNorma G Padilla-EguiluzPablo Hernandez-EstebanPublished in: Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA (2021)
Surgical timing preferences for knee replacement vary between patients older than 65 years (immediate surgery only when pain is intense) and younger patients (immediate surgery no matter the amount of pain). Even if COVID-19 severely stroke our population, the need for knee replacement stood in the young population and even in the aged population at risk for COVID when pain was important.
Keyphrases
- chronic pain
- end stage renal disease
- pain management
- total knee arthroplasty
- chronic kidney disease
- coronavirus disease
- neuropathic pain
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- sars cov
- minimally invasive
- prognostic factors
- knee osteoarthritis
- coronary artery bypass
- acute coronary syndrome
- patient reported
- patient reported outcomes
- brain injury
- blood brain barrier
- middle aged
- surgical site infection
- subarachnoid hemorrhage