If you are planning to get a knee replacement surgery at Bangalore, as an orthopedic and joint replacement surgeon, I would require the patient to have good, clear skin and soft tissue condition in the sense they should have no skin infections along with no urinary tract infections. Basically they should be free from infection anywhere in the body. The second thing, they should have a good lung capacity. So I would advise all patients coming in for joint replacement surgery to get some basic blood and urine test from which we rue out skin and soft tissue infection and a urinary tract infection. I would ask the patients to go for a good amount of walk so that he can build up his respiratory reserves by which they can withstand the surgery and develop the quadriceps muscle, as a result of which the knee replacement recovery is very smooth and without any problems. I would also like the patients to take a bath one week before the date of surgery, with either a cholrhexidine soap, or a Dettol, or lifebuoy soap, so that all the superficial skin infections and organisms are taken care of, so that they are fit for knee replacements.
