Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter demonstrates bone marrow aspiration with local numbing. You feel vibration as the needle taps into bone, then dark marrow gets drawn into six tubes in about 1.5 to 2 minutes.
Six small tubes.
About 1.5 to 2 minutes.
100% (as stated by the clinician).
Once I get in there, then I'm going to draw the bone marrow, which kind of looks like dark blood, out of the bone itself.
But if you feel pain, you tell me. I stop. I put in more numbing medicine. Then I have to take a small little mallet, and I have to tap it in with a little more oomph. And I'm going to count 1, 2, 3. Tap might make you jump a little bit. 100% of my patients have told me no pain whatsoever. Okay, but you feel the vibration. It's a weird sensation. There's no getting around it. But again, no pain. Then once I've confirmed no pain, a couple more smaller taps to get it into the bone marrow itself. And we're talking about tiny distances, very small, but it takes a little effort, especially if you have good bone. Once I get in there, then I'm going to draw the bone marrow, which kind of looks like dark blood, out of the bone itself. I do six small tubes and I count down. First one's done, second one's done. So that you know where we are in the process. Everything goes right, it takes about a minute and a half to two minutes, so it's very quick.
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