Dr. Sandeep Wasnik

Dr. Sandeep Wasnik, is a Joint Replacement and Orthopaedic surgeon. He has completed his post graduation, MS (Orthopaedics) from KEM Hospital and Seth G.S. Medical College. He is a SICOT fellow specializing in adult hip and knee replacement surgeries. He has done his fellowship from esteemed Mannheim Medical University Germany, with specialization in knee arthroplasty, and advanced fellowships from Germany’s Carl Gustav University specializing in complex Hip Replacement surgeries. He has undergone training in various places like ITALY, AUSTRALIA, and BELGIUM with stalwarts of joint replacement surgeries.

He has been passionate not just about the practice but also sharing the knowledge and making efforts in R&D, with the single goal of increasing success rate and longevity of the surgeries. He has an experience of more than 2000 successful hip and knee replacements surgeries, and more than 800 Robotic knee replacement surgeries. He is the first surgeon in India to perform complex Hip Replacement Surgery using Reclaim™ Implant technology for direct single replacement from hip till the knee joint. He uses modern technology in Knee replacement surgeries to offer the highest safety standards.

He is also the one of the few surgeons globally performing Total knee replacement with minimally invasive techniques without using tourniquet, which is the cutting edge for joint replacement surgeries.

He is among few surgeon in India who perform, Minimally invasive (DAA) total hip replacement surgeries, which is the most advanced method of performing Total hip replacement surgery.

KDAH experience

Dr Sandeep Wasnik is a Leading minimally invasive Robotic Joint Replacement Surgeon at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital since July 2018. He exclusively does minimally invasive Primary as well as Complex Revision Joint Replacement Surgeries. These are performed in a minimally invasive manner with a very small incision, and not cutting any muscle at all which allows speedy recovery in patients. The average length of hospital stay in single knee replacement is 2 days and for both knee its 4 to 5 days.

Over the last seven years he had performed more than 5000 Joint Replacement Surgeries at Kokilaben Hospital, out of which 4200 are Total Knee Replacements (TKR) and 800 are Total Hip Replacement (THR) operations.

In last one year he has performed more than 800 robotic assisted total knee replacement surgeries.

98% of patients are pain free and satisfied with the range of movements they achieve after the Joint Replacement Surgery. The postoperative infection rate is 0.2% (2 in 1000) which is well within the international benchmark of less than 1% (10 in 1000)

He has done many national and international presentations in field of Joint Replacement Surgery. He has done many international publications in field of Knee Replacement surgeries. He is the reviewer for Indian Journal of Orthopaedics, International Journal of Sport Medicine (NY, USA) and Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences.

He is a faculty for joint replacement surgeries, and has delivered many lectures in national and international conferences

• "Simultaneous bilateral total knee replacement: a prospective study of 150 patients Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery (Hong Kong) 2013 April
• Simultaneous Bilateral Computer Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty: The Effect of Intravenous or Intraarticular Tranexamic Acid. Journal of Arthroplasty 2013 April
• Use of bone graft substitute in treatment of distal radius fractures in elderly European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology July 2012
• Early experience with high flexion cruciate retaining total knee system - A randomized controlled trial with high flexion posterior stabilized knees (accepted for publication in journal “The Knee”)
• Does subvastus approach help in early rehabilitation in elderly no obese patients undergoing bilateral simultaneous total knee arthroplasty? A randomized controlled study of 100 patients. Indian journal of orthopaedics 2013 January
• The “Shetty test” in Ankle injuries: Validation of a novel test to rule out ankle fractures European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology 2012August
• Is total knee arthroplasty using high flexion design associated with increased patello-femoral complications? A prospective study." Accepted for publication, in Journal of Knee Surgery. online issue available
• Fibula head is a useful landmark to predict the location of posterior cruciate ligament footprint prior to total knee arthroplasty. International Orthopedics. 2013 Sep 18.
• Does subvastus approach help in early rehabilitation in elderly no obese patients undergoing bilateral simultaneous total knee arthroplasty? A randomized controlled study of 100 patients. Indian journal of orthopaedics 2013 July. Author's reply.
• Preservation of the PCL when performing cruciate-retaining TKA: Is the tibial tuberosity a reliablepredictor of the PCL footprint location? Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc, 2016
• Comparative study of elbow disorders in young high-performance gymnasts. Int J Sports Med. 2014 Oct.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

• Safety, concern and rapid road to recovery: a prospective study of simultaneous bilateral total knee replacement in 81 patients (SICOT Abstract book November 2012)
• Plantar fasciitis: a randomized controlled study to compare the efficacy of corticosteroid therapy with platelet-rich plasma therapy (SICOT Abstract book November 2012)
• Does subvastus approach help in early rehabilitation in elderly non-obese patients undergoing bilateral simultaneous total knee arthroplasty? A double blinded randomized controlled study of 50 patients (SICOT Abstract book November 2012)
• Role of bone graft substitute in treatment of distal radius fractures in elderly(SICOT Dubai, E-Poster November 2012)
• Is total knee arthroplasty using high flexion design associated with increased patello-femoral complications? a prospective study(SICOT Dubai, E-Poster November 2012)
• Early experience with high flexion cruciate retaining total knee system: a match pair analysis of 100 patients. (SICOT Dubai, E-Poster November 2012)
• Ankle injuries: validation of a novel test to rule out ankle Fractures (SICOT Dubai, E-Poster
• Role of bone graft substitute in treatment of distal radius fractures in elderly (SICOT Dubai, E- Poster November 2012)
• Faculty for Basic surgical approaches : A cadaveric course 2016 (under Bombay Orthopedic Society)
• Faculty Total Hip Symposium2017—KIMS Hyderabad
• Faculty for Basic surgical approaches : A cadaveric course 2017(under Bombay Orthopedic Society)
• Faculty for Annual Arthroplasty conference Hyderabad 2018 (AACH)
• Faculty for Fracture Symposium 2018, KDAH.
• Faculty for Basic surgical approaches : A cadaveric course 2018 (under Bombay Orthopedic Society)
• Faculty for IAACON 2019
• Faculty for silver jubilee IAACON 2020.
• Faculty for International Symposium on Robotic joint replacement (ISRJR–Pune)2023
• Faculty for WBASCON 2023 Kolkata.
• Live robotic surgery demonstration (VELYS) Varanasi 2023
• Live robotic surgery demonstration (VELYS) Mangalore 2023
• Faculty for training delegates in VELYS robotic TKR(Hands on training cadaveric workshop -August 2023)