What are the different steps of total hip resurfacing surgery?
Learning about total hip resurfacing surgery can help ease confusion and anxiety related to the surgical procedure. It involves removing the damaged surface of the affected hip joint and replacing that with an artificial joint. The surgery is performed in the following steps · The affected hip is marked after checking vital signs of the patients. The vital signs including blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature have to be normal at the time of the surgery. · Anaesthesia is administered. It could be a general anaesthesia or regional/spinal anaesthesia for blocking sensation from the waist down. · Surgery starts with an incision made at the side of back of the affected hip. The incision exposes the bones at the hip joint by cutting deep through the skin and underlying muscles and soft tissues. · The hip-joint is dislocated by removing the head of femur from its socket (acetabulum) in the pelvis. · The