Drainage does not increase anemia after cementless total hip arthroplasty.

Abstract

We performed a prospective randomized controlled study to determine whether drainage increased the degree of anemia after primary cementless total hip arthroplasty. After implanting the components, we randomly divided 40 patients (40 hips) into a group who had drains (20 patients, 20 hips) and a group without drains (20 patients, 20 hips). There were no differences in the mean preoperative hemoglobin or hematocrit values, length of skin incision, operative time, intraoperative blood loss, or the donated and transfused volumes of autologous blood between the two groups. There were also no differences in decreased hemoglobin or hematocrit values 3 days postoperatively compared with preoperative values (hemoglobin, 0.7 g/dL versus 0.7 g/dL; hematocrit, 2.2% versus 2.4%). Drainage did not increase the degree of postoperative anemia after cementless total hip arthroplasty.

• Authors: Kenta Matsuda, Shigeru Nakamura, Nobuhiro Wakimoto, Makoto Kobayashi, Takashi Matsushita
• Journal: Clinical orthopaedics and related research (Clin Orthop Relat Res) Vol. 458 Pg. 101-5 (May 2007) ISSN: 0009-921X [Print] United States
• PMID: 17146364 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial)

Chemical References

• Bone Cements
• Hemoglobins

Topics

• Anemia (blood, etiology, pathology)
• Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip (methods)
• Blood Loss, Surgical
• Blood Transfusion, Autologous
• Bone Cements (therapeutic use)
• Female
• Hematocrit
• Hemoglobins (analysis)
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Postoperative Complications
• Prospective Studies
• Suction (adverse effects)