Double knee replacement surgery | Can I replace both knees together? - Dr. Mohan M R

Dr. Mohan M R | Appointment booking number: 8022540900
Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon | Nano Hospitals, Hulimavu Bangalore
Double knee replacement meaning simultaneous knee replacement is happening at the same anesthetic time or single surgical time here you are replacing both the knee joints. This call can be based on many factors. One is the actual surgeon factors and also the pre anesthetic checkups where all the other sutures are evaluated by the cardiologist or the pulmonologists based on their comorbid conditions based on whether you have any conditions like diabetes, hypertension, cardiac diseases, kidney diseases, lung diseases. So this has to be ascertained or any particular medications, this has to be evaluated to see the fitness for the surgery this knee replacement surgery puts a lot of stress on the vital physiological processes. So your body should be able to be capable to take up the physiological stress . So that has to be ascertained by batteries of tests and specialists who will know if you are fit for surgery or no. So once a surgery puts a certain amount of physiological stress, if you are doing a second surgery at the same time, there is an additional stress. The body has to be able to cope up with that that has to be ascertained by the specialists only. There are advantages of doing at a single time. There are also disadvantages . It puts at a high stress, it puts a risk of other complications, wherever a cardiac event or a vascular event, cerebral even can happen. So that has to be kept in mind. So when recovery happens it could be shorter in bilateral simultaneous, but to be done in a staged procedure, the risk of the body, the physiological stress of the body would be much less if you are staging it in a couple of days or a week’s time. So that is a decision to be made between you and the treating surgeon and also the preanesthetic evaluation team.

[adarshjulania]

Hello Sir, Sir my mother is having her 2nd knee surgery as the 1st surgery was not successful.
Dr. Advised the process in 2 stages due to the infection being there in her knee.
So first they will operate and cover the cement part and then once the infection is out in 1 or 2 months then they operate again.
I am worried about the 2-operation process
her age is 51
I am from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Please advise if you can Sir.

Thanks,
Adarsh

[lazybun_india]

My 76 yr mother had valgus right knee, but doctors advised for bilateral surgery, i am confused

[lazybun_india]

today all pre operative checks been done ... let's see what orthopedic surgeon decide

[bw]

How to avoid double knee replacement: Have one done and you’ll be convinced the other doesn’t need it. 😅