Moderator: So, Adolph, you know we’ve got historically 30-day, 90-day morbidity, mortality data. A lot of that’s old. Do you think that that’s still valid or do you think we’re doing something different that really changes the way that we are looking at how patients recover from joint replacement?
Dr. Lombardi: We are doing something different. We heard all those talks about being preemptive and making sure the patient is optimized; that’s the difference that I’m seeing.
Moderator: Doug, when you look at the sentinel events that occur in joint replacement patients, it was somewhere around 48 hours. If you’re going to keep people in the hospital should we really keep them between 48 and 72 to make sure that they’re over that hump?
Dr. Dennis: It’s what the data says. I had one patient that died who was actually in the hospital. The nurse checked her at 3 a.m., then went in and checked at 4 a.m. and she was cold and dead. That can’t happen in the patients I keep overnight now because every patient has a pulse oximeter on their finger and it gives me a little bit of comfort.
