Current surgical practice for septic arthritis of the knee in the United States

For septic arthritis of the knee, we attempted to determine: the preferred surgical technique in the United-States (US), the believed “gold-standard” treatment among others. This was performed by an electronic-survey distributed to all academic orthopaedic faculty throughout the US. The preferred me...

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Published inJournal of orthopaedics Vol. 25; pp. 88 - 92
Main Authors Jaffe, David, Costales, Timothy, Jauregui, Julio J., Koenig, Scott, Weir, Tristan B., Greenwell, Patrick, Christian, Matthew, Henn, R. Frank
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Elsevier B.V 01.05.2021
Elsevier
Subjects
Arthroscopy
Arthrotomy
Septic arthritis
Septic knee
Surgical technique
Septic knee
Arthroscopy
Arthrotomy
Surgical technique
Septic arthritis
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Summary:For septic arthritis of the knee, we attempted to determine: the preferred surgical technique in the United-States (US), the believed “gold-standard” treatment among others. This was performed by an electronic-survey distributed to all academic orthopaedic faculty throughout the US. The preferred method was arthroscopy (69.8%). Arthroscopy is believed to be the gold-standard in 27.0%, arthrotomy in 29.4%, while 43.5% believe no gold-standard exists. In conclusion the majority of surgeons prefer arthroscopy when managing a native, septic knee in an adult patient. However, there is no national consensus on a gold-standard treatment or the role of synovectomy.
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ISSN:0972-978X
0972-978X
DOI:10.1016/j.jor.2021.04.005