Local Infiltration Anaesthesia with a Bloodless Operative Field (WALANT). Presentation of the Technique and its Use in Hand Surgery.

This article presents a method of preparation of the anaesthetic solution and the technique of anaesthesia for several common procedures in hand surgery. In 2019, our centre performed 340 operations under WALANT anaesthesia, with no serious complications observed. Data from the literature are presented showing that this technique is attracting increasing popularity worldwide. Our centre was the first in Poland to introduce the WALANT method to hand surgery. PMID: 32732447 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Ortopedia Traumatologia Rehabilitacja - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Ortop Traumatol Rehabil Source Type: research