Same-day hip replacements: Simplifying the process

FARMINGTON -- Sometimes, medical advances don’t happen in one big “Eureka!” moment. Sometimes, like with hip and knee replacements, they happen slowly, over the span of many years, as much from a change in thinking as anything.
While the advancements have been slow and steady, the result is that knee and hip replacement patients, like Mark Lafontaine of Wallingford, are getting out of the hospital more quickly than ever, even though his replacement was considered a complex cas