How is Hip Arthroscopy?
To see well inside the joint and prevent injuries with our maneuvers tissues, fill it with sterile serum pressure, which produces an effect similar to “blow up a balloon” and also allows continuous washing joint eliminating waste of blood, pieces of tissue removed, and so on.
In the hip is necessary to add a harness that pulls the leg, to overcome the strong embeddedness articulate. Just in case you want to act solely in the femoral neck without going over, you will not: for example, when performing a biopsy of the synovium.
Enter a metal tube with an optical system that illuminates and magnifies the inside of the joint, seeing the image on a television monitor.Once inside we see the cuts introduced by a number of tools such as probes, tweezers, hand and motor smoothing devices, which allow you to work in the joint.
The anesthesia used can be either spinal anesthesia (asleep back down) or general (unconscious patient).
Although a surgical procedure and requires the same sterile conditions (clean and sterile to avoid infection) than any other operation, the hospital stay is short, the patient may return the same day at home if not a problem for Anaesthesia in INSALUD called ambulatory surgery (CMA). It is scheduled for surgery, that is, emergency not practiced, but looking for a particular day.