Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement

Coxa, Hospital for Joint Replacement, is a hospital specialized in endoprosthetic surgery. The hospital started its activities in September 2002. During 2006, Coxa produced close to 3,000 endoprosthetic joint operations on 2,659 patients. Of the operations, 1,591 were knee operations and 1,293 hip operations. Because it specializes in endoprosthetic surgeries, Coxa achieves far lower complication rates than similar surgeries performed at general hospitals (0.1 percent vs. 10-12 percent).

The Hospital for Joint Replacement Coxa specializes in the the following services:

• endoprosthesis operations for hip and knee joints
• endoprosthesis operations for shoulder, elbow, ankle and wrist joints (e.g. for people suffering of rheumatoid arthritis)
• revision operations
• about 70 % of the operations produced by the hospital are first operations, about 20 % are revisions and about 10 % are other special endoprosthesis operations (valgus knee, hip dysplasia etc)
• the Hospital for Joint Replacement offers nation-wide, the most demanding endoprosthesis surgery

The activities of the Hospital for Joint Replacement include a short post-operative treatment period (from 1 to 3 days) in Coxa. Rehabilitation takes place at other hospitals of the area - or at any other sender hospital - which thus will take part in the activities of the Hospital for Joint Replacement. As to patients' post-operative follow-up, it is mainly carried out at the initiative of the patients themselves through a decentralized IT-based follow-up system.

The Endoprosthesis Hospital operates as an educational hospital in its own field:

• for the personnel of nursing and rehabilitative treatment
• for specializing orthopedic surgeons
• for orthopedic specialists aiming for specific skills in endoprosthesis surgery