Charnley low-friction hip replacement
Prótesis de cadera de Charnley
- Date
- 1962 · confidence high
- Place
- Wrightington Hospital, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- John Charnley
- People
- 👤 John Charnley1911–1982
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
An artificial joint with a small metal head and a polyethylene socket fixed with acrylic cement, used in a clean-air operating theatre. It made joint replacement a routine operation.
What it led to
- Hip, shoulder and spine prostheses
- Orthopaedic surgery as a response to ageing
- Biomaterials engineering
Built on
- Ziegler-Natta catalysts: HDPE and polypropylene1953-1954
- dental acrylic cement
- surgical stainless steel
Made possible
- knee prosthesis
- biomaterials
- laminar-flow operating theatres