| After prepping and draping the patient's extremity, the surgeon makes a stab incision and inserts the arthroscope into the knee joint through a standard inferolateral portal. |
| A television camera attached to the arthroscope allows the surgeon to see and work with great accuracy. |
| The arthroscope also enables a joint to be washed out easily, and this in itself may be valuable. |
| When the surgery is complete, your surgeon removes the arthroscope and any other instruments and flushes the joint with a saline solution. |
| Note: A standard Ø 2.7 mm arthroscope with a 30° lens and isotonic electrolyte solution as the arthroscopy medium is recommended. |
| This step was completed by switching the arthroscope to the anterior cannula while maintaining the thermal probe in the accessory posterior portal. |
