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Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty

INTRODUCTION: Lunar calendars, publishing recommendations for daily life, are gaining more and more attention in Germany, where 10.5% of the population believe in lunar effects on disease. A widespread and often heard belief is that a full moon has the most negative effects on surgical outcome. The...

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Autores principales: Ficklscherer, Andreas, Angermann, Alexander, Weber, Patrick, Wegener, Bernd, Pietschmann, Matthias, Müller, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22457684
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2012.27290
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author Ficklscherer, Andreas
Angermann, Alexander
Weber, Patrick
Wegener, Bernd
Pietschmann, Matthias
Müller, Peter
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Angermann, Alexander
Weber, Patrick
Wegener, Bernd
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Müller, Peter
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description INTRODUCTION: Lunar calendars, publishing recommendations for daily life, are gaining more and more attention in Germany, where 10.5% of the population believe in lunar effects on disease. A widespread and often heard belief is that a full moon has the most negative effects on surgical outcome. The present study evaluates the effects of lunar phase on perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective study with 305 patients being provided with a primary hip arthroplasty. To identify possible influences of the lunar phase on perioperative complications we investigated data such as operation length, blood loss and course of C-reactive protein that were collected during the patients’ stay in the hospital and allocated them to moon illumination. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in all collected data concerning the lunar phase (p > 0.05). Although not statistically significant, there were fewer operations during the full moon phase. CONCLUSIONS: Therefore there is no evidence that lunar phase has an effect on perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty. Fewer, though not significantly fewer, operations were performed during the full moon phase. Although this was not a prospective randomized trial, the statistical magnitude of the results does not support any recommendations for scheduling patients for total hip arthroplasty at any particular day of the lunar phase.
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spelling pubmed-33094462012-03-28 Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty Ficklscherer, Andreas Angermann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Wegener, Bernd Pietschmann, Matthias Müller, Peter Arch Med Sci Clinical Research INTRODUCTION: Lunar calendars, publishing recommendations for daily life, are gaining more and more attention in Germany, where 10.5% of the population believe in lunar effects on disease. A widespread and often heard belief is that a full moon has the most negative effects on surgical outcome. The present study evaluates the effects of lunar phase on perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective study with 305 patients being provided with a primary hip arthroplasty. To identify possible influences of the lunar phase on perioperative complications we investigated data such as operation length, blood loss and course of C-reactive protein that were collected during the patients’ stay in the hospital and allocated them to moon illumination. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in all collected data concerning the lunar phase (p > 0.05). Although not statistically significant, there were fewer operations during the full moon phase. CONCLUSIONS: Therefore there is no evidence that lunar phase has an effect on perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty. Fewer, though not significantly fewer, operations were performed during the full moon phase. Although this was not a prospective randomized trial, the statistical magnitude of the results does not support any recommendations for scheduling patients for total hip arthroplasty at any particular day of the lunar phase. Termedia Publishing House 2012-02-29 2012-02-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3309446/ /pubmed/22457684 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2012.27290 Text en Copyright © 2012 Termedia & Banach http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ficklscherer, Andreas
Angermann, Alexander
Weber, Patrick
Wegener, Bernd
Pietschmann, Matthias
Müller, Peter
Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty
title Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty
title_full Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty
title_fullStr Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty
title_full_unstemmed Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty
title_short Lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty
title_sort lunar phase does not influence perioperative complications in total hip arthroplasty
topic Clinical Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22457684
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2012.27290
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