UF Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute Physician Dr. Hernan Prieto discuss a newly implemented set of patient centered protocols that can enable certain joint replacement patients to return home the same day of their surgery. This protocol comes as part of a focus on quality and outcomes for patients at UF Health by emphasizing early recover and improved pain control.
UF Orthopaedics resident W. Zach Stone received the 1st Place resident research awarded at the 2017 Florida Orthopaedic Society Annual Meeting for the study entitled, "Clinical evaluation of alpha defensine in diagnosing periprosthetic joint infection."
Congratulations to Dr. Rene Przkora and Dr. Hari Parvataneni on their grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Florida.