Orthopaedic Surgery

Contact Information

  • Phone: 9346 8010
  • Fax: 9346 8215

OPH provides the following orthopaedic surgery services for patients at low anaesthetic risk and who are suitable for early discharge with rehabilitation support:

  • Outpatient orthopaedic clinic review for patients with hip and knee pain.
  • Hip/knee joint replacement surgery - see Total Hip Replacement Guide For Patients (PDF 4 Mb) and Total Knee Replacement Guide for Patients (PDF 4 Mb)
  • Rotator cuff surgery (Please refer to Dr John Spencer at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, indicating the request for surgery at OPH. If the patient is suitable for OPH surgery, the full pre-operative work-up including MRI will be performed at SCGH prior to surgery here).
  • Arthroscopies and minor orthopaedic surgery.

We welcome referrals from you and have 3 versions of referral templates available for your use:

Alternatively you may send your own electronically generated form. Please include patient demographic (name, address, telephone) and clinical details (medical history, medication and drug reactions).

If referring for consideration of hip/knee replacement surgery please also ensure that the patient brings recent plain weight-bearing X-rays of the hip or knee to the appointment (no more than 6 months old at the time of referral).

Fax your referral to Dr Piers Yates and Dr Jonathon Spencer at 9346 8298.

Please ensure that there are no exclusion criteria:

  • Severe obesity (BMI >40)
  • Severe or unstable cardiovascular disease (Marked limitation of activity, poorly controlled hypertension or ischaemic heart disease, uninvestigated murmurs)
  • Unstable respiratory disease (On >10 mg prednisolone, severely compromised lung function (PEFR < 50% of expected) or obstructive sleep apnoea on CPAP)
  • Poorly controlled diabetes (HbA1C >8, on >30 U insulin/day)
  • Liver failure (eg. bilirubin raised. Minor rise in GGT okay)
  • Renal failure (creatinine > 150)
  • History of significant anaesthetic problems (eg. malignant hyperthermia)
  • Severe rheumatoid systemic disease with unstable symptoms and/or advanced joint decay (eg. unstable cervical spine, lumbar spinal deformation, severe systemic joint deformation/contractures)
  • Complex metabolic/endocrine conditions (stable single systems such as treated hypothyroidism is acceptable)
  • Unstable neurological disorders (e.g. advanced Parkinson's disease)
  • Complex chronic pain
  • Revision surgery

Instructions for importing into the Medical Director software

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Instructions for importing into other software

We welcome use of this form or your own computer generated version. In view of the number of different software products available we are unable to provide specific templates for each product. However you may use the Word version to import the document into your own medical software. You will need to create the automated fields such as patient and doctor details.

Last modified: 28th May 2009.