Volume 25, Issue 109, March, 2021

Drainage of septic knee joint using redivac drain and lavage under local anesthesia

Falah Kadhim Hasan

Consultant, Department of Intensive Care unit, Al-Imamain medical city, Baghdad, Iraq; Email: hayder.adnan2010@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Objective: investigate the use redivac drainage tubes to drain septic knee arthritis in patients who are unfit for general anesthesia using local anesthesia as an alternative method in treating septic knee arthritis. Methods: sixteen patients between 20 to 65 year old age who had septic knee arthritis and were unfit for general anesthesia underwent local drainage using redivac tubes and continuous isotonic fluid irrigation under local anesthesia. Results: all of the 16 patients showed improvement very soon after the procedure in clinical and laboratory measurement, with early joint movement and rehabilitation. Conclusions: Treating septic knee arthritis surgically as an emergency in patients who are unfit for general anesthesia by using redivac drain and lavage under local anesthesia provide an excellent alternative way that may save patients’ lives and decrease their morbidity.

Keywords: septic knee arthritis, drain, suction tubes, anesthesia

Medical Science, 2021, 25(109), 735-738

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