Wide-Awake Local Anesthetic No Tourniquet Surgery of the Foot and Ankle

Orthop Clin North Am. 2023 Oct;54(4):471-483. doi: 10.1016/j.ocl.2023.05.003. Epub 2023 Jun 26.ABSTRACTWide awake local anesthetic no tourniquet (WALANT) surgery of the foot and ankle has the potential to offer safe and effective surgeon-based anesthesia for a significant number of surgeries about the foot and ankle. This has been documented with significant and growing body of literature. WALANT could offer significant advantages with respect to patient experience, per case cost of procedures as well as for improving access for patients to operative resources in a setting of scarcity or restricted access.PMID:37718086 | DOI:10.1016/j.ocl.2023.05.003
Source: The Orthopedic Clinics of North America - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research