A doctor explains how bone marrow aspirate mixed with platelet-rich plasma can be injected into an arthritic knee to avoid surgery. The procedure uses X-ray guidance and takes about an hour from start to finish.
The whole stay here at the outpatient center is about an hour to an hour and a half. Now, we've prepared our bone marrow aspirate. We've mixed it with a little bit of the patient's own prp, and that's high dose prp. And this is what we're going to inject in and around the bone. We've got our patient all prepped and ready, and we're going to get started here pretty shortly. The whole procedure takes us about 10 minutes to do once we get started, the processing takes about 20 minutes. And the whole stay here at the outpatient center is about an hour to an hour and a half. We're about ready to get started. We're going to use this X ray to sort of localize where we're going to do our injections. First thing I'm going to do is kind of look at it with the needle here. X ray right there. Good. And we can really see X ray right there where we're going to be doing our injection. She's got some arthritis kind of on the inner portion of the knee, so I'm going to go ahead and. Yep, that's perfect.
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