NCT05421000

WALANT in Distal Radius Fracture Osteosynthesis

Assessing the Applicability and Potential Benefits of Wide Awake Local Anaesthesia No Tourniquet in Distal Radius Fracture Osteosynthesis.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Arnau de Vilanova · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the applicability and potential benefits of Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) or Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet ("LANT) versus locoregional anesthesia (LRA) and tourniquet in osteosynthesis of distal radius fractures (DRF) during the immediate postoperative period. Our hypothesis is that being able to avoid the use of a limb tourniquet in such a procedure may cause less swelling and better surgical wound appearance in the immediate postoperative period, without compromising pain level, patient satisfaction, or improving the number of complications. In this regard, prospective randomized study was designed comparing short term results of patients who were operated using WALANT (A) to locoregional anesthesia (LRA) and tourniquet (B). Main outcomes were pain, swelling and patient satisfaction. Surgical wound bleeding,mobility, surgeon's technical difficulty, insufficient anesthesia and complications were also evaluated.

Conditions

• Radius Fracture Distal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	WALANT	Wide awake local anesthesia without tourniquet for distal radius fracture surgery
PROCEDURE	Locoregional anesthesia and tourniquet	Locoregional anesthesia and tourniquet for distal radius fracture surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-20
• Primary completion: 2021-12-22
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2022-06-16
• Last updated: 2022-06-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain