Advertisement for orthosearch.org.uk
Results 1 - 2 of 2
Results per page:
Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 11, Issue 3 | Pages 5 - 8
1 Jun 2022
Rigney B


Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 103-B, Issue SUPP_13 | Pages 109 - 109
1 Nov 2021
Rigney B Casey C Donald CM Pomeroy E Cleary M
Full Access

Introduction and Objective

Wide awake local anaesthetic no tourniquet (WALANT) is being used for a wide variety of hand and wrist surgery. It has recently been used in distal radius fracture fixation. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the effectiveness of the WALANT technique in open reduction internal fixation.

Materials and Methods

Pubmed, Embase, and Scopus databases were searched on 02/03/21 with the following search terms: radius, WALANT, local anesthetic, wide awake surgery. The primary outcome measure was conversion to general anaesthetic and mean intra-operative visual analogue scale (VAS) pain scores. Secondary measures were operative times, mean intraoperative blood loss, post-operative functional and radiological outcomes.