"Pre-procedural evaluation"
"check an intra-articular needle tip position with a small amount of iodinated contrast via connection tubing and save a post-injection image/video run"
"Ultrasound "
"Fluoroscopy "
Expected headings
"Absolute"
"Relative"
"Pre-procedural evaluation"
"Syringe selection"
"Needle selection"
"Technique"
"Ultrasound "
"Fluoroscopy "
"administer intra-articular injectate; the hip is a medium-sized joint and the injected volume should reflect this"
"using ultrasound, identify the anterior hip joint in a longitudinal plane; parallel to the long axis of the femoral neck, and then optimise imaging and mark the skin entry point at the end of the probe 1"
"optimise imaging field and using the metal rod mark the skin at the target entry point; both ‘eye of the needle’ and oblique needle techniques are used and the lateral femoral neck is the target 2"
"initial injections can be extra-articular but if the needle is repositioned before giving the injectate this often has no effect; excess extra-articular solution may distort an MRI arthrogram, especially if the MRI injectate is outside of the joint ref"