The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery's Elie Ghanem, M.D. was a recent guest on UAB Medicine's podcast - UAB MedCast. This podcast series is geared toward medical professionals who wish to learn about new advances in academic medicine and surgery. This on-the-go tool allows listeners to collect continuing medical education credit with each episode.

Ghanem's episode entitled Outpatient Total Joint Replacement: The Future is Now discusses the evolution of total joint replacement surgery and what UAB is doing differently. He credits the success of the same-day therapy to collaboration with his colleagues and the drive as surgeons to always improve. Ghanem also outlines the patient criteria, the differences in the protocols, and who would benefit from this procedure. 

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