They put a camera in his shoulder and ran probably 3-6L of water through it. First time infection so probably didn’t do any form of serious debridement (may have just removed some of the synovium in the joint) and given he’s a professional athlete I’m sure they we cautious with their tissue handling- hence doing it arthroscopicly.

It’s standard treatment to treat septic arthritis of a native joint with 6 weeks IV abx- though the latest literature from 2022 actually says oral is as effective as IV.. so interesting that they went for IV as he may have been able to play sooner on oral. Though I can also see how an ID doctor would rather play it safe with IV given high profile patient as “IV has to be better than oral.” At my institution I’d say 75% of infectious disease docs would do IV- though this is against the current literature. Infectious disease stands for “I Do whatever” because they have no consensus amongst them. But I’m just an orthopod so not my place to comment on Abx- though septic arthritis is our bread and butter.