Texas ASC adds outpatient total hip replacements

The Surgery Center of Amarillo (Texas) has begun offering outpatient total hip replacement to patients, myhighplains.com reported Aug. 16.

Tyler Cooper, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the ASC, said the procedure takes about 90 minutes and allows people to avoid long hospital stays during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ASCsaid it also plans to add outpatient total shoulder replacements.

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