NCT04491656

Evaluating Clinical Outcomes for Determining the Optimal Delay to Skin Incision Under WALANT

Evaluating Clinical Outcomes for Determining the Optimal Delay to Skin Incision Under WALANT: a Prospective Series of 34 Patients From a Low Resource Tertiary Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: East Avenue Medical Center, Philippines · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Further studies are needed to establish the effects of WALANT in performing most common hand surgeries, in relation to its clinical outcomes and intraoperative blood loss. Therefore, this study aims to identify the best interval time to perform elective hand surgeries using WALANT technique, document clinical outcomes and identify potential complications

Detailed description

To propose the optimal time delay from the injection to skin incision for most WALANT surgeries of the hand or wrist by analyzing not only intraoperative blood loss, but also postoperative pain scores and complication rates To determine if there is a difference between performing the WALANT technique with a waiting interval of 7 minutes as compared to 30 minutes prior to incision in relation to blood loss, pain scores, and complications. Initiate the use of WALANT technique and its application in practice of Orthopaedic Residents in East Avenue Medical Center

Conditions

• Hand Surgery
• Orthopedic Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	WALANT Technique	A technique commonly used in hand surgeries where the combination of lidocaine and epinephrine is used for local blood control, thus performing the procedure without a tourniquet

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-07-15
• Completion: 2020-07-15
• First posted: 2020-07-29
• Last updated: 2020-07-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Philippines