30-04-2023, 02:11 PM
We have no idea why a hip has to be removed as there can be a lot of different reasons and may be the best option for the patient to have the bone removed and be without the offending hip bone.
There are actually quite a lot of reasons why an artificial joint cannot be inserted, some of which are not able to be identified until the time of the original surgery eg the state of the bone in which the new joint has to be inserted if this is too weak to support a piece of metal it can do more harm than good.
The general condition of the patient or An open wound anywhere on the body considerably increases the risk of infection and once any foreign substance within the body becomes colonised with bacteria the resulting infection can be nigh on impossible to get rid of and can even be life threatening.
Unless you are the clinician treating a patient you do not have the full information as to why a particular decision has been made.
Reading the article about this particular case it appears that it was a matter of finding somewhere for him to go and the associated funding as much as his hip problems.
There are actually quite a lot of reasons why an artificial joint cannot be inserted, some of which are not able to be identified until the time of the original surgery eg the state of the bone in which the new joint has to be inserted if this is too weak to support a piece of metal it can do more harm than good.
The general condition of the patient or An open wound anywhere on the body considerably increases the risk of infection and once any foreign substance within the body becomes colonised with bacteria the resulting infection can be nigh on impossible to get rid of and can even be life threatening.
Unless you are the clinician treating a patient you do not have the full information as to why a particular decision has been made.
Reading the article about this particular case it appears that it was a matter of finding somewhere for him to go and the associated funding as much as his hip problems.