{"id":311,"date":"2022-04-06T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/home\/orthopaedic-surgery\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:13:21","slug":"orthopaedic-surgery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/royal-infirmary-of-edinburgh\/information-specific-to-the-type-of-surgery-that-you-are-having\/orthopaedic-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthopaedic surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please note, the NHS Lothian Preparing for Surgery orthopaedic surgery page is still in progess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIE orthopaedic department have their own website with lots of helpful information regarding the surgeries that they perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the NHS Lothian orthopaedic website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are having a hip or knee replacement we encourage you to read the Royal College of Anaesthetists: Anaesthetic choices for hip or knee replacement leaflet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are having knee replacement we encourage you to read the Royal College of Anaesthetists: Preparing for a knee replacement operation leaflet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are having a knee arthroscopy we encourage you to read the Royal College of Anaesthetists: Preparing for a knee arthroscopy patient information leaflet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please note, the NHS Lothian Preparing for Surgery orthopaedic surgery page is still in progess. The RIE orthopaedic department have their own website with lots of helpful information regarding the surgeries that they perform. See the NHS Lothian orthopaedic website for more information. If you are having a hip or knee replacement we encourage you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":306,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Please note, the NHS Lothian Preparing for Surgery orthopaedic surgery page is still in progess. The RIE orthopaedic department have their own website with lots of helpful information regarding the surgeries that they perform. See the NHS Lothian orthopaedic website for more information. If you are having a hip or knee replacement we encourage you","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/598"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}