How to Prepare For Your Knee Joint Replacement Surgery?

If you and your knee joint replacement surgeon have decided that the best treatment for you would be joint replacement surgery, then this article is based on how you need to prepare before your surgery. So, here we get started.

Appointments

• First of all, set up a surgery date and also discuss the risks of surgery.
• If your surgeon advised you, then you must visit your primary care and get preoperative medical clearance.
• Visit your clinic a week before and plan for a smooth procedure and recovery.
• Schedule any other required pre-surgical appointments listed in the prescription.
• Schedule a date for your surgery with the best knee joint replacement surgeon in Bhopal.

Drugs and Supplements

• Before a week for surgery, you should stop taking all NSAIDs. They interfere with blood clotting, which can result the chances of blood loss during the surgery.
• If you use medications for blood thinning, then you should ask the doctor who prescribed them that how long before surgery you should stop taking it.
• Before a week for surgery, you should stop taking all the supplements including vitamin E, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, and glucosamine and fish oil.

Dental Evaluation

• There are some of the dental conditions that need to be resolved before the surgery. It would allow bacteria to enter your bloodstream and cause an infection into the artificial joint.
• Also, ensure the fact that you visit your dentist before the day of your joint replacement surgery.

Preparing Your Home for after surgery

• A raised toilet seat
• A bathtub or shower chair
• A grabber tool
• A shoehorn and a sock aid that helps you in slipping the socks on without bending.
• Make pathways in the crowded areas
• Remove the throw rugs
• Secure the extension and telephone cords so they're not spread across the floor.
• Install handrails in your bathtub and on the stairways
• Place some of the important items where you can easily reach them.

The Days before Surgery

• Before the surgery, the surgeon would surely provide you with special antibacterial soap and instructions so as how and to use it.
• You can go for taking the medications as prescribed by the surgeon and avoid any extra supplement.
• Pack essential things that you would need in the hospital.

Dr. RP Singh – Best orthopaedic doctor in Bhopal is the first one to practice CET "O" MICROPLASTY technique in total knee replacement in central India and is pioneer for this technique in central India.