Traditionally, surgeons were taught that local anesthesia containing epinephrine should not
be injected into fingers. This idea has since been refuted in many basic and clinical scientific …

This is a review article of the wide-awake approach to hand surgery. More than 95% of all
hand surgery can now be performed without a tourniquet. Epinephrine is injected with …

One of the most significant recent advances in hand surgery has been the movement away
from tourniquet surgery, which often requires sedation or general anesthesia. The advent of …

PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical outcomes in patients with radial nerve palsy who
underwent nerve transfers using redundant fascicles of median nerve (innervating the flexor …

Aims We hypothesized that the wide-awake local anaesthesia with no tourniquet (WALANT)
technique is cost-effective, easy to use, safe, and reproducible, with a low learning curve …

In the recent years, treatment of distal radius fractures (DRF) has advanced considerably.
Surgical fixation with palmar angular stable plate has gained popularity, due to a reported …

Abstract Donald Lalonde, MD Charles Eaton, MD Peter C. Amadio, MD Jesse B. Jupiter, MD
There has been increased interest in and experience with performing several surgical …

With exceptions that include hand surgery in small children, major trauma patients, and on
those who are mentally challenged, more than 95 percent of all of the hand surgery in our …

Most people prefer wide awake hand surgery to having work done on their teeth. The pain is
similar if not less with the hand surgery, there is no one working in their mouth, and they do …

The wide-awake hand surgery (WAHS) technique involves injecting lidocaine with
adrenaline for hand surgical procedures that are done without the use of tourniquets …