Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report

Septic arthritis is a surgical emergency. Prompt diagnosis and immediate treatment reduce the destruction of articular cartilage and give better outcome. We describe a simple, minimally invasive closed tube irrigation system for the initial treatment of septic arthritis of the knee in a patient with...

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Autores principales: Khoo, SS, Loi, KW, Tan, KT, Suhaeb, AR, Simmrat, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435613
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1507.003
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description Septic arthritis is a surgical emergency. Prompt diagnosis and immediate treatment reduce the destruction of articular cartilage and give better outcome. We describe a simple, minimally invasive closed tube irrigation system for the initial treatment of septic arthritis of the knee in a patient with complex medical problems who was unfit to undergo surgery.
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spelling pubmed-53336722017-04-21 Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report Khoo, SS Loi, KW Tan, KT Suhaeb, AR Simmrat, S Malays Orthop J Case Report Septic arthritis is a surgical emergency. Prompt diagnosis and immediate treatment reduce the destruction of articular cartilage and give better outcome. We describe a simple, minimally invasive closed tube irrigation system for the initial treatment of septic arthritis of the knee in a patient with complex medical problems who was unfit to undergo surgery. Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2015-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5333672/ /pubmed/28435613 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1507.003 Text en © 2015 Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA). All Rights Reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khoo, SS
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Suhaeb, AR
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Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report
title Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report
title_full Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report
title_fullStr Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report
title_short Bedside Continuous Irrigation and Drainage as an Interim Local Treatment for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the Medically Unstable Patient: A Case Report
title_sort bedside continuous irrigation and drainage as an interim local treatment for septic arthritis of the knee in the medically unstable patient: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435613
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1507.003
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