The Technique of Total Knee Arthroplasty, 2nd Edition

Section I Preoperative Considerations
1. Patient Considerations: Comorbidities and Optimization
2. Modify What’s Modifiable: Smoking, Obesity, Opioid Dependence, and Nutritional Deficiencies
3. Optimizing Important Comorbidities: Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Cardiac Disease
4. Assessment of Surgical Difficulty
5. Preoperative Planning From Medical Issues to Implants
Section II Issues and Considerations on the Day of Surgery
6. Setting Up an Outpatient or Same-Day Discharge Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) Program
7. Surgical Procedure
8. Bone-Cutting Technique
9. TKA Balancing
10. New Technology and Surgical Technique in TKA
11. Cement Technique
Section III Postoperative TKA Considerations
12. Avoiding Peri- and Postoperative Management After Total Knee Arthroplasty
13. Complications of Total Knee Arthroplasty and Evidence Basis for Outcomes of Knee Arthroplasty
Index