Total Hip Replacement An Evaluation of the Results and Technics, 1967???1972

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The first total hip replacements were carried out in Auckland late in 1966 and a study program was initiated early in 1967. Over 1,250 hip replacements have been done in Auckland. For various reasons some surgeons were unwilling to participate in the study which now comprises 1,025 hips operated on in the period January 1967 to December 1972. The operation was performed bilaterally on about 20 per cent of patients and this proportion is increasing. In the study group 939 Charnlcy prosthescs were inserted and 86 of the McKec-Farrar type. In this latter group there were 15 patients in whom a Charnlcy prosthesis has been inserted on the opposite side. The operations were carried out by 10 surgeons; some operations were done by Residents in training and under supervision, and slightly over 60 per cent of the operations have been done by 3 surgeons. The operations were done either in the Orthopedic Department at Middlemore Hospital or at the Mater Misericordiac Hospital (a large, private institution). More recently operations were done in the Orthopedic Department at Auckland Hospital but these cases arc not included in the present review.

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