Wide Awake Hand Surgery and Therapy Tips

WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet) is a revolutionary hand surgery technique that eliminates the need for preoperative testing, sedation, intravenous insertion, and monitoring. It improves hand surgery outcomes by allowing unsedated patients to move reconstructed parts during surgery, reducing risks, increasing patient safety, and reducing pain. This book provides evidence-based benefits, step-by-step guidance, patient education tips, injection directions, surgery and therapy tips, postsurgical management, and related videos. It also includes a three times larger video library, new chapters on upper and lower limb fracture plating, and innovative hand therapy techniques.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 474 pages
Publication date: 11 November 2021
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers Inc

The definitive multimedia resource on wide awake hand surgery from renowned experts

WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet) eliminates the need for preoperative testing, sedation, intravenous insertion, and monitoring in upper and lower limb surgery. Coupled with minimal pain injection techniques using pure local anesthesia with lidocaine and epinephrine, this technique has significantly improved hand surgery for patients and surgeons in many ways.

Wide Awake Hand Surgery and Therapy Tips, Second Edition, provides readers with the best and latest WALANT advances from Donald H. Lalonde and an impressive group of hand surgeons from 15 countries that have incorporated this groundbreaking technique into practice to benefit their patients. Each richly illustrated chapter encompasses evidence-based benefits, step-by-step guidance, patient education tips, detailed injection directions, surgery and therapy tips and tricks, postsurgical management, and related videos.

WALANT produces better outcomes in flexor and extensor tendon repair, tendon transfer, tenolysis, tendon grafts, and finger fracture surgery because unsedated patients can easily move reconstructed parts during surgery. This allows surgeons to make required adjustments and teach patients uninterrupted while they are awake. Eliminating sedation also decreases risks, increases patient safety, and reduces pain associated with intravenous insertion. Simple surgeries such as trigger finger and carpal tunnel release no longer require costly main operating rooms. Instead, they can be performed in minor procedure rooms with evidence-based sterility, resulting in lower costs and reduced waste.

New Features

A three times larger video library with more than 500 videos, most of which are new

New chapters on ulnar nerve entrapment, cubital tunnel syndrome, and wrist fractures

Expanded coverage of hand and upper extremity anatomy, physiology, and pathology

Updated information on minimally invasive surgery techniques, such as arthroscopic tendon repair and carpal tunnel release

More than 1,000 high-quality photographs and illustrations to enhance understanding and clinical application

Online access to the fully searchable text, videos, and images for convenient reference and learning

Whether you are a hand surgeon, physical therapist, or patient seeking information on wide awake hand surgery, this comprehensive resource is an essential tool for improving your knowledge and outcomes.

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Weight: 1276g
Dimension: 184 x 255 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781684202300
Edition number: 2 New edition