Same-Day TKA: ASC or Tertiary Care?

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Researchers from Duke University have just published a study which compares total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) to TKA in a tertiary care university hospital setting. Their work, “Same-Day Discharge Total Knee Arthroplasty: Hospital Demonstrates Similar Outcomes to Ambulatory Surgery Center in a More Complex Patient Population,” appears in the February 2025 edition of The Journal of Arthroplasty. 

Speaking to the backstory involved was Michael P. Bolognesi, M.D., Virginia Flower Baker Distinguished Professor and chief of the Division of Adult Reconstruction at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Bolognesi told OTW, “Our partner, Sean Ryan (senior author), had an interest in looking at the outcomes for same-day discharge from the hospital and at our ASC once we transitioned some of the patient population to the freestanding ASC setting.”