She presented with pain and mechanical symptoms of clicking, locking and giving way. Case ReportĪ 59-year-old female patient was referred to us with 12 months’ history of increasing knee pain following a twisting injury.
#Thigh compartments professional#
We present our management strategy employing a multi-professional approach and discuss the relevance and importance of the professional duty of candour to this patient’s care. We report a case of thigh fluid extravasation which occurred during a routine knee arthroscopy procedure performed by an experienced surgeon. The reported incidence of increased thigh compartment pressure secondary to extravasation of fluid during knee arthroscopy is extremely low (3). Thirty-five percent of these were for meniscal surgery (2). Data from the English NHS patients has shown that approximately 301,701 arthroscopic operations were performed between 20 – an annual incidence of 9.9 per 10,000 of the English population. Knee arthroscopy is one of the commonly performed day surgery procedure in orthopaedic with low complications rates of 0.27% (1). This was potentially due to a breach in the superior capsule causing fluid extravasation in the thigh compartment. We report a case of extravasation of fluid into the anterior thigh compartment during a routine arthroscopic procedure for a symptomatic lateral meniscus tear. It is a safe day case procedure with relatively few complications. Knee arthroscopy is one of the common procedures performed in orthopaedic for a variety of pathologies.
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