Current Surgical Practice for Septic Arthritis of the Knee in the United States

Overview

Journal J Orthop

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2021 May 17

PMID 33994704

Citations 4

Authors

David Jaffe

Timothy Costales

Julio J Jauregui

Scott Koenig

Tristan B Weir

Patrick Greenwell

Matthew Christian

R Frank Henn 3rd

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Abstract

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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