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Total left knee replacement (DuPuy Attune knee revision)
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@cindymattern
Interesting. Most people who use the DuPuy Attune implant use the associated VELYS robot and most people who use the CORI robot use the associated Journey II implant. Your surgeon apparently did a mix and match.
By 2022 the scientific literature was clear that a tourniquet was a bad idea:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8094224/
I hope the reason you have a different surgeon this time is that you fired the first guy!
I think the quality of the surgeon is much more important than whether she used an Attune implant, a Journey II implant, a Triathlon implant, a Conformis implant, etc. It sounds like you struck fool's gold the first time and real gold the second time.
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@steveinarizona Thank you for your extensive input on surgical knee procedure. I am fascinated by your condemnation of the tourniquet during knee surgery. When surgeons elect not to use a tourniquet, or have one available to them, do they not risk a bloody field which could potentially cause for a less secure bone-implant bond? What does the surgeon use to control bleeding, are they relying upon extensive electro-cautery? I realize that transexamic acid is used as well but I have heard that some surgeons use both the acid and the tourniquet. I too, would think that tourniquet-less surgery would result in far less bruising and I would be all for that but how do they keep the field free of blood? I do not know if I would be comfortable going in to a surgery without the tourniquet being available to the Doc... just in case...
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@steveinarizona I looked it up and they use the CORI as well as ROSA to assist robotically. I don't remember it hurting this badly before (3 years ago). I just want the pain to stop. I did great till that nerve block wore off.