Hip replacement operation (24 images)

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  • Orthopaedic surgeon studying x-ray of pelvis before surgery...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • X-ray of pelvis sowing bone damage to both hips. Loss of space on right hip is more pronounced and requires surgical repair...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • First incision using a scapel taking place over the side of the hip...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • After the first incision using a scapel taking place over the side of the hip the incision is deepened to expose the hip joint...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • Deep incision to gain access to hip joint...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • The femoral head has been manually dislocated and removed from the joint...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • Femoral head cut off using a saw and removed. The acetabulum, hip socket, can now be prepared for the HDPE cup...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • An air powered tool, a hemispherical reamer, is used to deepen the cavity, actebulum, in the hip, innominate, bone. The plastic socket will then be fitted into this cavity.©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • A straight tapered reamer is used to hollow out a length of the femur bone, this creates a canal about 15cm long into which the stem of the new hip joint will be cemented...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • A rasp or broach is hammered into the shaft of the femur to enlarge and deepen the canal made by rhe straight tapered reamer which has been used to hollow out a length of the femur bone, this creates a canal about 15cm long into which the stem of the new hip joint will be cemented...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • Trail HDPE socket implant to ensure correct size and fitting...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • The HDPE socket cup just before implantation. ..©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • General view of opearting theatre during hip replacement surgery...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • Bone cement being prepared for hip replacement surgery...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • Bone cement being inserted into the cavity made in the femur with a hand pumped gun, this may be mixed with an antibiotic. The cement dries in about 11 minutes...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • When the canal is filled with cement the stem of the artifical hip bone is inserted down the length of the femur, this is pushed into place by hand...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • The stem is now cemented into place in the femur...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • The HDPE plastic socket and femoral metal component have been cemented into place and are now ready to be fitted together...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • The HDPE plastic socket and femoral metal component have been cemented into place and are now ready to be fitted together...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • The HDPE plastic socket and femoral metal component have been cemented into place and are now fitted together after the discolated joint has been put back into it's correct position...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • After the HDPE plastic socket and femoral metal component have been cemented into place and have been fitted together the surgeon pumps sterile saline into the surgical site. This flushes out any remaining bone cement or debris. The wound can now be closed...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • After the hip replacement operation staples are used to join the wound together...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • After the incision is stapled closed marcaine, a local anaesthetic, is injected. This will give post-operative pain relief...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com
  • After the hip replacement operation two blood drains are fitted, one in the superficial fat layer and one in the deeper tissue structures...©shoutpictures.com.john@shoutpictures.com