Welcome. This is episode 492 of the Divine Intervention

podcasts. Into this podcast we're going to be addressing a topic I like to title

The Clotch Joint Infections podcast, the Clotch Joint Infections Podcasts. The Clutch Joint Infections Podcast. So what if they give you a question about a 25 year old

male and you're told that for the past two decisions be having significant right knee pain.

And you're told that on physical exam the knee is red is exquisitely tender to palpitation and you're asked what's going to be your next step.

Well your next step obvious is to get an atherosanthesis. This person

certainly has a septic joint, septic arthritis, stuff like that.

So that's going to be the main topic of this podcast that we're going to go into detail.

Again I'm not going to waste time on fluff, I just want to hit on the things that are very important for you to know for your exams.

So, again, whenever you see a person that has a joint, especially when it's a singular joint. That's actually kind of a

high-yore detail, a singular joint that's red, hot and tender. The person

likely has septic arthritis. Again, there are many different names they can use

for it on exams. They can call a septic arthritis, they can call a septic arthritis, they can use for it on exams.

They can call a septic arthritis, they can call a septic joint,

they can call it the infectious arthritis,

just many different terms for the same thing.

And most times, one nice date give away that this person probably has septic joint is that

involvement is going to be just one joint. Most times when people have septic joint,

it's one joint that is involved. Most times it is monotarticular. It is very, very rarely

polyarticular. That's a very high olfactoid to know. If you see a person having

polyarticular involvement of their joints, it's just highly unlikely to be septic joint.

In fact, the only people I will see you should probably worry about for polyarticular arthritis are people that have like rheumatoid arthritis, sometimes they can have like a

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