Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics Main Menu Home Page CO2 arthroscopy of the knee. Riddell-RR Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Irvine. During the past ten years, approximately 3000 cases of knee arthroscopy have been performed in a CO2 medium.
Advantages are a better visual field and no motion of tissue in the arthroscopic field.
The disadvantages are minimal. For these reasons, it is believed that CO2 arthroscopy is a significant adjunct to arthroscopy in a fluid medium.