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ReviewJournal of hand surgery global online2022

Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia, No Tourniquet Surgery in the Philippines.

Emmanuel P Estrella, Nathaniel S Orillaza

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Review in Journal of hand surgery global online, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emmanuel P EstrellaInstitute of Clinical Epidemiology, ASTRO Study Group, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.
Nathaniel S OrillazaMICROSURGERY Unit, Department of Orthopedics, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippine General Hospital, Philippines.
Philippine General Hospital · PHUniversity of the Philippines Manila · PH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of wide-awake local anesthesia, no tourniquet (WALANT) has been adapted by most hand surgeons in the Philippines. This is especially true for centers with a large volume of patients needing specialized care for the hand. The use of WALANT has enabled surgeons to do procedures on an outpatient basis, thus potentially creating cost-saving measures for patients and health care facilities. Aside from common outpatient procedures like carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger, and de Quervain tenosynovitis, open reduction internal fixation of hand fractures, acute tendon repairs, tendon transfers, and reconstructions have been performed under WALANT as outpatient procedures. The future of WALANT surgery in the Philippines is promising. Teaching WALANT to other areas of the country can counterbalance the large disproportion of hand surgeons to patients and the concentration of specialized care in urban areas. This will enable patients to receive surgical hand care without going to large urban centers.

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Local anesthesiaWALANTWide-awake surgery

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PMID36425380
PMCPMC9678725
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