{"id":8748,"date":"2021-09-15T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T01:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:40:25","slug":"joint-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/stars-gazer\/joint-replacement","title":{"rendered":"STARS\u2019s new joint replacement service a shining success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_2559\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2559\" class=\"wp-image-2559 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/09\/stars-new-join-replacement-service-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"STARS\u2019s new joint replacement service a shining success\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patient Maree Dietrich (R) with STARS Physiotherapist Erin Huttenmeister (L)<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #201f1e;\">STARS\u2019s new Accelerated Arthroplasty Service is delivering fast results and shorter hospital stays for joint replacement patients.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #201f1e;\">The Accelerated Arthroplasty Service, which is a first of its kind for Metro North Health, is an innovative and collaborative clinical model for joint replacement patients.\u00a0<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #201f1e;\">STARS Clinical Director of Surgery orthopaedic surgeon Dr Catherine McDougall explained that the Accelerated Arthroplasty Service allows patients to go <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">home one or two days after surgery<span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">, unlike typical joint replacement patients who can remain in hospital for up to five days.\u00a0<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">&#8220;The STARS Accelerated Arthroplasty Service is a multidisciplinary service with the patient as the focus. We have used the evidence around all aspects of the patient journey from time of booking to time of discharge home to create our model,&#8221; Dr McDougall said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">&#8220;We are excited to be able to integrate innovative and virtual technologies into the program and are very pleased with our early results providing high quality care and improving patient outcomes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Maree Dietrich was the first patient at STARS to receive a hip replacement with the Accelerated Arthroplasty Service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201cThe team in here are beautiful. I\u2019ve never been to STARS before \u2013 didn\u2019t even know it existed,\u201d Maree said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Patients in the Accelerated Arthroplasty Service participate in a pre-admission afternoon two weeks ahead of their surgery, with physiotherapy, nursing, anaesthetics and pharmacy staff all seeing the patient.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Patients also receive a virtual home visit with an occupational therapist a week before surgery to prepare them to manage their recovery at home and provide options for support.\u00a0<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The goal is for the patient to come then come in for surgery on a Tuesday and be discharged home on the Thursday, with community support, therapy and group exercises at STARS afterwards.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201cThe follow up sheet that you get to give you instructions is all clearly laid out now from start to finish in order of what you do, because it can be quite daunting and also quite confusing, so you end up making your own notes. But not anymore, I don\u2019t need to do that,\u201d Maree said.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">When asked what her experience at STARS had been like, Maree had nothing but praise for her treating team and the Accelerated Arthroplasty Service: \u201cbrilliant, just brilliant\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STARS\u2019s new Accelerated Arthroplasty Service is delivering fast results and shorter hospital stays for joint replacement patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stars-gazer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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