Pre-operative Patient Optimization Reduces Complications Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: An Evidenced-based...

With the rates of total knee arthroplasty continuing to rise in the coming decades, large efforts have been made to provide a more reliable result. Pre-operative optimization of patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty is beneficial in decreasing complications. Understanding common factors that put patients at increased risk, as well as some absolute contraindications to total knee arthroplasty, is important in patient selection and planning during the peri-operative period. While concrete guidelines on these factors are not universally utilized, understanding the risks associated with each and how to best treat them can allow surgeons to make a safer pre-operative plan.