PATIENT ADVANTAGES: There are advantages to the patient on a short hospital. stay or outpatient surgery timeline after knee and hip replacement surgery: 1. RAPID MOBILIZATION: A big advantage of an early discharge to home after. knee and hip replacement surgery is the natural increase in mobilization.
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The addition of the prefix car- (possibly derived from a Scottish Gaelic word meaning wrong or awkward) didn't change the meaning of the word considerably. In the 19th century carfuffle, with its variant curfuffle, became a noun, and in the 20th century it was embraced by a broader population of English speakers and standardized to kerfuffle. There is some dispute among language historians over how the altered spelling came to be favored.