**Meet the editors**

Alessandro R. Zorzi lives in São Paulo (Brazil), where he works as an orthopedic surgeon and a researcher at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. He obtained his MD degree from the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (University of São Paulo (USP) in 1999 and MSc and PhD degrees from Unicamp. He conducts research in

the field of meniscus and cartilage regeneration and in the surgical treatment of osteoarthrosis. He has an interest in scientific divulgation and is the editor of the blog Femur Distal. He is married to Giovana and is the father of Ana Laura and Davi.

Professor João Batista de Miranda is the chairman of the Division of Knee Surgery and Inflammatory Diseases, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. He performs teaching activities with medical students, orthopedic fellows, and postgraduating researchers. He also develops the research and clinical care. He is currently the superin-

tendent of the Unicamp Teaching Hospital. He obtained his PhD degree with an experimental study on bone regeneration and allografts. He has published several scientific articles in international journals and is the coeditor of the book *Bone Grafting* published by IntechOpen.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Goderecci

Chapter 6 **Pain Management 93**

and Kai-Lan Hsu

Melvin J. George

Chapter 1 **Planning Primary Total Knee Arthroplasties 1**

Chapter 2 **Cruciate-Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty 23**

Chapter 5 **Tourniquet Use in Total Knee Arthroplasty 81**

Yavuz Orak and Mahmut Arslan

and Marcelo José Cortez Bezerra

João Bosco Sales Nogueira, Leonardo Heráclio do Carmo Araújo

Vittorio Calvisi, Alessandro Paglia, Norman Ciprietti and Remo

Chapter 3 **Methods of DVT Prophylaxis after Total Knee Arthroplasty 41**

Nikolopoulos Dimitrios, Sagos George and Michos Ioannis

Kai-Lan Hsu, Chih-Wei Chang, Chyun-Yu Yang and Jou-Hua Wang

Jou-Hua Wang, Chih-Wei Chang, Yi-Chen Chen, Chyun-yu Yang

Chapter 4 **Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty in Valgus Deformity 55**

Chapter 7 **Fast Track Surgery Program in Knee Replacement 113**
