No learning curve effect was observed for the remaining procedural parameters (procedure duration, ablation time and RF current application duration).
On the other hand, the operator's experience is related to the procedure's success rate and duration.
Accurate preoperative planning improves the procedure's precision [ 1, 16], shortens its duration [ 1, 22], and reduces the incidence of prosthesis loosening [ 13, 19], and loss of bone stock [ 13, 14, 19] among other complications (eg, instability, limb-length differences, periprosthetic fractures) [ 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 17, 21, 23, 25, 30, 32].
Additionally, data on patient age, sex, surgical procedure, surgical site, duration of surgery, and duration of tourniquet placement were collected.
23 We also obtained data related to a patient's individual procedure, such as duration of ventilation, use of epidural analgesia, transfusion of blood products, estimated blood loss, and whether the surgery was scheduled as emergent/urgent or ambulatory.
Due to the minimally invasive nature of the procedure, surgery duration and hospital stay is reduced.
The mean ± SD procedure duration was 82.4 ± 43.2 min for all procedures, 81.8 ± 41.2 min for antegrade procedures, and 78.3 ± 34.7 min for retrograde procedures.
Furthermore, no sample instrumentation is required, reducing substantially the global experimental procedure duration.
Secondary objective treatment effect measures were systolic and diastolic blood pressure and total procedure duration.
Mean procedure duration was <30 min.
