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1. Lifeline multi-specialty hospital
 Perungudi, Rajiv Gandhi road
Tamilnadu, India
T.+91 9176640002 (personal mobile)

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27, 1st avenue, Besant nagar 
Chennai 600090, India
Mobile: +91 9176640002 & +91 9282165002

Joint replacement in Laminar air flow theatres

The ideal environment for knee, hip and other joint replacemtnts
Laminar air flow theatres are the ideal environment for performing these operations with a great degree of success. The infection rate comes down to less than 1 %.
   
Clean air lowers colony forming units
Many cases of early knee replacement failures are due to infection. Risk of infection is lowered by reducing contamination during surgery in Laminar air flow. This positive pressure sweeps away colony forming bacteria from the operative field.

Core issues for medical tourism
Overseas Patients epxectations are safe performance of cost effective surgery. This is possible in laminar air flow theatre as seen here

Guided air flow OR Laminar air flow OR