Ultrasound Guidance for Intra-articular Injections Improves Clinician Accuracy Medscape

Description: Report on - A Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Study of Ultrasound-guided Corticosteroid Injection Into the Joints of Patients With Inflammatory Arthritis
Cunnington J, Marshall, N, Hide, G, et al Arthritis Rheum.2010;62:1862-1869
Summary - The use of ultrasound guidance has been advocated as a technically superior method for performing intra-articular injections. This study compared clinical efficacy and technical accuracy in 184 patients who underwent either ultrasound-guided intra-articular injections or blind injections.
OWL Editors' Note: findings that although the accuracy of injection may be improved by ultrasound guidance the clinical effect may not be. See href="http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/718833"/Ultrasound Guidance Does Not Improve Benefit of Joint Injections for Arthritis Medscape CME