Smoking hampers the body’s ability to repair wounds by affecting the supply of oxygen to tissues. Smoking has ill effect on the cardiovascular system, circulatory system, skin, teeth, and life expectancy. Smoking is a potentially modifiable patient behavior with...
The epidemic of obesity continues to plague the American public. According to recent studies and projections by 2050 the entire US populace will be overweight or obese. Numerous studies in the field of orthopaedic surgery have found that patients who are obese prior...
After a joint replacement, a patient can develop a blood clot in the operative extremity, known as a deep venous thrombosis or DVT. Rarely, that blood clot can break off, travel to the lungs, and cause pulmonary symptoms ranging from shortness of breath to sudden...
