This week I was at the clinic with Dr. Carli's PA, Lexi where we saw patients post operation and patients scheduling for knee arthroplasties. I learned a lot about cortisone shots, these are steroids used to manage pain and inflammation of patients with osteoarthritis. There was a specific patient that had developed several bone spurs in her knee due to OA and there was difficulty in getting the needle in the correct location without inflicting pain to the patient. Usually ultrasound is used to guide the needle to the correct location, however at the clinic it is done without guidance. I also saw some X-rays of a patient with windswept deformity of the knees, a condition where one knee is in a varus (bow-legged) alignment, while the other knee is in a valgus (knock-kneed) alignment. This week I have been getting started on experimental data, my project involves using two different cleaning methods and evaluation how effective they are on removing E. coli biofilm from tibial base plates. These past weeks I have been gathering control data, I am very excited to see what the experimental outcomes are. I attended Dr. Michelle Bradbury's talk on C dots as an imaging agent. As someone who has seen the fabrication side of the C dots through Dr. Ulrich Wiesner's groups work at Cornell University, I was very excited to see the clinical outcome of their work in imaging, mapping and therapy. This week at the OR I saw more hip replacement surgeries, one being cementless and the other cemented.
Pictures from Google; Top: Windswept deformity, Left: Non-OA vs OA knee, Right: Site for cortisone shot.
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