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EdHeads Hip Resurfacing

1) What are the SOAP notes for your patient?S—subjective- complaint/why are they there

O—objective – vital signs/test results

A—assessment, what’s your diagnosis and explain why you know based on the symptoms

P—plan, how will you treat the disorder

2) Why is it important to preserve bone in younger patients?

3) What is the acetabulum of the hip?

4) Why do you need to cauterize blood vessels after making the incision with your scalpel?

5) Why must you dislocate the femur during this surgery?

6) Why is it important that the guide wire is placed within the center of the femoral head?

7) Why is a femoral head with a larger diameter used in this surgery?

8) What type of socket exists at the hip? What types of movement can be performed here?

9) When you go to close the surgical field, what was the order of tissue being sutured? Why?

10) Why is physical therapy and ‘down-time’ necessary after the surgery?

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11) How do you think a hip resurfacing surgery would be different than a total hip replacement surgery?

12) Label the following diagram of the hip – to practice learning the anatomy.