NCT02807571

Office Based Hand Surgery Using WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet): Outcomes and Cost Savings Analysis

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Corewell Health West · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is aimed at determining if office based surgery is an effective way of cutting health care cost while maintaining patient safety and satisfaction.

Detailed description

The study is a retrospective chart review with prospective patient satisfaction and functional outcome surveys. Patients that have had office based procedures that otherwise could be performed in the outpatient surgical setting from January 1, 2015 to December 4, 2015 will be contacted for study enrollment. Patient satisfaction and functional outcome surveys will be administered to those patients that consent to the research study. The data to be collected will include but is not limited to: age gender limb dominance, complications and co-morbidities.

Conditions

• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet	Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet for office based hand surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-10
• Primary completion: 2017-10-03
• Completion: 2017-10-03
• First posted: 2016-06-21
• Last updated: 2023-09-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States