Injection Techniques
Work your way through this e-learning package  At the end of this seminar use the index below to test what you have remembered about each section.  To aid recall we would suggest you do this for the first five chapters after reading the second five and so on.  

In this tutorial your learning objectives will be to:

  • Review the properties of steroids and local anasethetics
  • Learn the indications for joint aspiration and injection
  • Understand the principles of safe joint aspiration and injection

Author: John Hardy

Table of Contents
1 Injection Techniques
2 Introduction
3 Properties of Steroids
4 Common Steroid Preparations
5 Indications for Steroid Injection
6 Relative Contraindications of Steroid Injection
7 Absolute Contraindications of Steroid Injection
8 Systemic Side Effects
9 Local Side Effects
10 Indication for Local Anaesthetic
11 Frequency of Use
12 Local Anaesthetics - types
13 Local Anaesthetics - time to onset and duration
14 Local Anaesthetics - systemic toxicity
15 Local Anaesthetics - symptoms of toxicity
16 Local Anaesthetics - systemic toxicity
17 Local Anaesthetics - treatment of systemic toxicity
18 Local Anaesthetics - treatment of allergy to LA
19 Quick Question
20 Local Anaesthetics - emergency trolley
21 Injection Technique - aseptic technique
22 Injection Technique - aseptic technique
23 Injection Technique - aseptic technique
24 Injection Technique - aspiration indications
25 Injection Technique - diagnosis of an effusion
26 Knee - aspiration and injection
27 Knee - aspiration and injection
28 Knee - prepatella & infrapatella bursitis
29 Hip- aspiration and injection
30 Learning Objectives - summary