Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet in hand surgery: an analysis of adverse events and complications Cover

Wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet in hand surgery: an analysis of adverse events and complications

By: Andrzej Żyluk  
Open Access
|Apr 2024

References

  1. Lalonde D, Martin A. Epinephrine in local anesthesia in finger and hand surgery: the case for wide-awake anesthesia. J Am Acad Orthop Surg 2013;21(8):443-7.
  2. Lalonde D. Conceptual origins, current practice, and views of wide awake hand surgery. J Hand Surg Eur 2017;42(9):886-95.
  3. Lalonde D, Bell M, Benoit P, Sparkes G, Denkler KA, Chang PS. A multicenter prospective study of 3,110 consecutive cases of elective epinephrine use in the fingers and hand: The Dalhousie Project clinical phase. J Hand Surg Am 2005;30(5):1061-7.
  4. Żyluk A, Szlosser Z. Local infiltration anaesthesia with a bloodless operative field (WALANT). Presentation of the technique and its use in hand surgery. Ortop Traumatol Rehabil 2020;22(3):203-9.
  5. Sim WP, Ng HJ, Tan S, Bajaj SL, Rajaratnam V. Scope of hand surgery using surgeon administered local/regional anaesthesia. Ann Plast Surg 2019;83(3):278-84.
  6. Abdullah S, Hua LC, Sheau YL, Thavamany Devapitchai AS, Ahmad AA, Narin Singh PS, et al. A review of 1073 cases of wide-awake-local-anaesthesia-no-tourniquet (WALANT) in Finger and Hand Surgeries in an Urban Hospital in Malaysia. Cureus 2021;13(7):e16269.
  7. Kurtzman JS, Etcheson JI, Koehler SM. Wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet: an updated review. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open 2021;9(3):e3507.
  8. Sardenberg T, Ribak S, Colenci R, de Campos RB, Varanda D, Cortopassi AC. 488 hand surgeries with local anesthesia with epinephrine, without a tourniquet, without sedation, and without an anesthesiologist. Rev Bras Ortop 2018;53(3):281-6.
  9. Connors KM, Guerra SM, Koehler SM. Current evidence involving WALANT surgery. J Hand Surg Glob Online 2022;4(6):452-5.
  10. 10. Ince I, Aksoy M, Celik M. Can we perform distal nerve block instead of brachial plexus nerve block under ultrasound guidance for hand surgery? Eurasian J Med 2016;48(3):167-71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.950 | Journal eISSN: 2719-6313 | Journal ISSN: 2450-4637
Language: English
Page range: 15 - 17
Published on: Apr 25, 2024
Published by: Pomeranian Medical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2024 Andrzej Żyluk, published by Pomeranian Medical University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.