Assignment about Total Knee Replacement

Running Head: NURSING 0
TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT
AUSTRALIA
[DATE]
[COMPANY NAME]
[Company address]

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Introduction
In this academic essay, the case scenario of Frank Wright will be taken into consideration
who had undergone surgery for total replacing of the right knee. The entire procedure covered
under this provision of this undergone surgery will be noted down basically under three heads.
Where the first head will postsurgical plans made for Frank. The second part will include the
impact of comorbidities and general anesthesia. The third part will cover up the entire
discharging plan made for Frank. Finally, there will be a concluding statement determining all
the recommendations or the suggestions given to Frank. Before proceeding further it is important
to understand the meaning of total knee replacement. It is defined as a surgical procedure where
the artificial material replaces the diseased knee joint. The joint of the knee is the one that
connects the thigh with the lower leg.
Source: (Hospita, 2018).
Part 1 Post-surgical plan
The surgery of the total knee replacement upon being successfully helped Frank to
increase his mobility and reduce the pain in and around the diseased knee. But to get the relief it
is very important to be very careful after completion of the surgery. Around one and a half to

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three hours is required for undergoing this operation. Then Frank was taken to the recovery
room. First 24 hours are very curtailed, where generally all the vital organs are to be monitored
and after recovering the stability in them, they are been taken to the rooms in the hospital by the
nurses and taken proper care off (Sun, Darnall, Baker, & Mackey, 2016).
Pre-operative period
Only those patients whose knee joints have been damaged either by progressive arthritics
or trauma or any other destructive disease in the joint and that results in intolerable pains and
decreases the daily functioning power of the patients. So deciding on undergoing surgery is not
an easy task. Before reaching any decision the patients must understand all the risks as well as
the benefits of undergoing knee replacement operations (William & Shiel, 2019). Before the
surgery, the joints along with the hip and the ankle are to be evaluated carefully, which is very
important to confirm the best outcome and retrieval after the completion of the surgery
(Ljungqvist, Scott, & Fearon, 2017).
Source: (Shiel Jr. & Wheeler, 2018)
Replacing a joint of the damaged knee may bring several pain if it is not done properly or
abnormally.24 hours before the conduction of the operation all the medicines that the patient is