AUDIT
Pyrocarbon Shoulder Hemiarthroplasty Outcomes
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
2025
Orthopaedics
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Background
Limited long-term data exist on clinical, radiographic and patient-reported outcomes following pyrocarbon shoulder hemiarthroplasty, making local benchmarking and patient counselling challenging .
Aims
To evaluate long-term clinical, radiological and patient-reported outcomes of pyrocarbon shoulder hemiarthroplasty at GSTT (in collaboration with University Hospitals Sussex) during the audit cycle
Objectives
Cohort identification: Select all patients with ≥5 years follow-up post-hemiarthroplasty.
Outcome collection: Gather Oxford Shoulder Score (or equivalent) and radiographic implant-status at most recent follow-up.
Complication logging: Record any revision surgeries or perioperative complications.
Benchmark comparison: Contrast local outcomes with published series by month 5.
Recommendations: Draft a standardized long-term follow-up protocol by cycle end
Keywords
Pyrocarbon shoulder hemiarthroplasty
Long-term outcomes
PROMs
Radiographic analysis
Shoulder arthroplasty audit
Joint audit
Clinical outcomes
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