Knee arthroscopy
The Knee arthroscopy is surgery that uses a tiny camera to see inside the knee is used. Small cuts are made to enter the camera and small surgical instruments into the knee to perform the procedure.
Technical advances such as high-definition monitors and high resolution cameras have transformed arthroscopy a very effective way to treat knee problems tool.
Arthroscopy is a common surgical procedure in which a joint (arthro-) (-scopia) is displayed using a small camera. Arthroscopy gives doctors a clear view of the inside of the knee. This helps them diagnose and treat knee problems.
Knee arthroscopy is a surgical technique that allows you to see directly inside the knee joint and work within it, without opening it. Only small incisions or cuts in the skin, practiced about one centimeter each (hence it is called minimally invasive technique).
The doctor, to see well inside the joint and avoid maneuvers with injuries to tissues, filled with sterile serum pressure, which makes the effect of inflating a balloon; while allowing the continued joint lavage, eliminating the waste of blood, pieces of tissue removed, etc. It is customary for the knee increases greatly in volume for several hours or even days. This phenomenon is due to the persistence of washing of the serum within the joint cavity.
The patient is placed on his back. No traction to the joint system is necessary. You only need to lock the position of the thigh and the surgeon or assistant move the leg, opening the joint space.
A metal tube with an optical system that illuminates and magnifies the inside of the joint, seeing the image on a TV monitor is introduced. Once inside you see, the incisions are introduced by a number of instruments such as probes, tweezers and hand motor smoothing devices, which allow you to work in the joint.
It is considered the best technique for meniscal lesions, adhesions, envelopes, loose bodies and to the initiation of cartilage lesions.
Your surgeon may close the incisions with sutures or steri-strips (small adhesive strips) and cover with a soft bandage.
You will be taken to the recovery room and could go home within 1-2 hours. Make sure you have someone with you to drive you home.
Dr. Juan Martínez Caamaño
Dr. Martinez is certified in the specialty of traumatology and orthopedics and medical techniques used to correct or prevent physical degeneration or malformation procedures and pains, injuries and other conditions that affect the musculoskeletal system of the body.