With New Device, Orthopedic Surgeons Can Decide During Your Office Visit if You Need Surgery

A new tool is giving orthopedic surgeons an innovative view inside the body. “It’s an instrument that has a digital camera at the tip of it so that once you put it in the joint you can look around,” says  James N. Gladstone, MD, Co-Chief, Sports Medicine Services, Orthopedics at The Mount Sinai Hospital. “It’s giving you a review that’s more or less equivalent to what you have in the operating room. If you think you have a meniscus tear, you go in, you look, and either there is a meniscus tear there or not, and all within the same visit you have an answer. The patient leaves with the treatment plan in place. You can obviate the need for the MRI altogether.”

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