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yes, that is a standard blood patch, what I had was just the platelets in serum.
This type of technology has been used in spine surgery...when I was doing the anterior exposures of the spine for a neurosurgeon, he would routinely aspirate bone marrow and mix it with autologous bone and pack it into the fusion area for a better /faster fusion around the implanted device.
Injecting it into a working joint for osteoarthritis may cause fibrosis, but I'm not an expert in this field. My use is to fibrose the torn tensons in the hopes of avoiding surgical repair.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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