NCT04636463

Music in Wide Awake Hand Surgery

Music in Wide Awake Local Anesthesia no Tourniquet (WALANT) Hand Surgery: Prospective Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rothman Institute Orthopaedics · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) surgery has emerged as a popular technique in hand surgery over the last decade. It is possible that the unfamiliar sounds of the operating room could contribute to intraoperative patient anxiety during WALANT surgery. This study intends to investigate whether utilizing noise cancelling headphones and listening to music intraoperatively during WALANT hand surgery has an effect on patient anxiety, pain, and satisfaction.

Conditions

• Hand Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Intraoperative Music	Hand Surgery performed with the participant awake, using local anesthesia. Headphones will be worn by the participant and surgery will be performed while the participant is listening to music

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-30
• Primary completion: 2021-11-30
• Completion: 2021-11-30
• First posted: 2020-11-19
• Last updated: 2020-11-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States