What are the dangers of knee arthroscopic surgery

Many people undergo arthroscopic surgery to treat and recover from knee pain, but this type of surgery has many harmful effects on the human body. Therefore, postoperative care, including wound treatment and swelling treatment, is very important. In order to recover health as soon as possible, people need to learn scientific care methods.

1. Postoperative Arrangements

An arthroscopy of the knee lasts about an hour, and you will be taken to a recovery room after the procedure. In the recovery room you can drink water, urinate, and move around with crutches.

After about one to two hours, as long as you are not feeling unwell, you can apply to be discharged from the hospital. Of course, it is best to have someone accompany you when you are discharged from the hospital to facilitate care.

2. Wound Management

After surgery, the incision is covered with a dressing to prevent infection and absorb tissue fluid from the wound. It is important to keep your dressing dry after surgery, so your attending doctor or nurse will tell you how and when to change your dressing.

Limitations of arthroscopic surgery——Not all knee osteoarthritis is suitable for arthroscopic treatment. Whether it is worth using arthroscopic minimally invasive treatment technology needs to consider the following factors: 1. It is necessary to know the details of the patient's lesions and understand which structures in the joint have problems, not just the general "knee osteoarthritis." 2. It is necessary to pay attention to the staging of joint lesions in knee osteoarthritis. If the patient is in the early stage, no treatment is needed and conservative treatments such as exercise, physical therapy, medication, and blockade can be used. For severe knee osteoarthritis, arthroscopic therapy is usually ineffective or has limited relief. At this time, it is better to directly perform artificial joint replacement to avoid undergoing another surgery. 3. Following the explanation in point 1 above: The symptoms, medical history and imaging data of the joint determine whether arthroscopic treatment is possible. If the patient has obvious mechanical entrapment symptoms and the doctor finds a clear entrapment site, then arthroscopy is usually a good option. 4. The patient’s age and gender need to be taken into consideration. Arthroscopic surgery is sometimes performed to buy some time for joint replacement and to avoid having to undergo artificial joint replacement at a young age. After all, artificial joints have a limited lifespan. Gender also needs to be taken into consideration sometimes. For example, some middle-aged women who undergo arthroscopic treatment actually experience more joint pain after the operation (of course, this is also because the indication was not chosen properly). These need to be treated with caution. 5. Recently, many foreign medical research papers claim that joint irrigation has no effect on alleviating the progression of knee osteoarthritis. Therefore, the idea that arthroscopic irrigation and cleaning can relieve or eliminate knee osteoarthritis is actually incorrect, or at least not completely correct. 6. Consider complications. As with any surgery, there are some complications associated with knee arthroscopy. For example, postoperative infection, neurovascular injury behind the knee joint, joint adhesion, deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs, etc. must be considered, although the overall incidence of these complications is not high.