Arthroplasty

The April 2026 Arthroplasty Roundup 360 looks at: Optimizing postoperative pain management in total knee arthroplasty with preoperative methadone: a prospective randomized study; General, spinal, and regional nerve blocks: do different anaesthesia practices affect same-day discharge in primary total hip and knee arthroplasty?; Postoperative clopidogrel thromboprophylaxis in total joint replacement: increased risk of transfusion but similar venous thromboembolic risk compared with aspirin; A comparison of 1.5-stage and two-stage revisions for periprosthetic joint infection in total hip and knee arthroplasty: a meta-analysis of outcomes; Patient-reported outcomes may be ‘missing not at random’ in hip and knee arthroplasty.