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Classroom classification

百科

Acute suppurative arthritis

风湿免疫科

Common symptoms

寒战、死骨、抽搐

The pathology of disease

Acute suppurative (septic) arthritis is bacterial infection of joint; hot swollen painful joint; fever; knee; aspirate; IV antibiotics; emergent.

Symptoms

Hot swollen painful joint; fever; inability to bear weight; knee most common; child/older; immunosuppressed

Causes

Staph aureus; Strep; Neisseria; hematogenous; joint aspiration; diabetes; immunosuppression.

Treatment

Urgent joint aspiration; IV antibiotics; drainage/arthroscopy; culture; ICU if systemic

Dept

Orthopedics / infectious disease / rheumatology.

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