New Zealand knee effusions

Approach to knee effusions.

The presence of an intra-articular knee effusion requires an extensive differential diagnosis and a systematic diagnostic approach. Pediatric knee effusions occur most commonly as acute hemarthroses after traumatic injury. However, the knee joint is susceptible to effusions secondary to a wide variety of atraumatic causes. Special attention is required in the atraumatic effusion to distinguish ...

Clinical pathways in total knee arthroplasty: a New Zealand experience.

PURPOSE To ascertain the effects of a clinical pathway in our institution. METHODS This retrospective and comparative study was performed on all patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty over a 5-year period. This period covered the 30 months prior to the introduction of the pathway (group 1), and the 30 months following its introduction (group 2). RESULTS There was a significant reductio...

Joint fluid pressure in chronic knee effusions.

With sterile precautions and after infiltration with local anaesthetic, a special type of needle was introduced into the lateral aspect of the knee near the upper border of the patella. This needle (S.W.G. 18, Down Bros., with a short bevel and perforations made in the sides 0 5 cm. from the point to prevent blockage) had a tap and a side-arm. A manometer filled with normal saline was attached ...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

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