NCT05832021

Comparison of Clinical Outcomes of Distal Radius Fractures Treated Surgically With WALANT and Peripheral Nerve Block

Comparison of Patients With Distal Radius Fracture Who Underwent Surgery With WALANT Technique or Peripheral Nerve Block Anesthesia Methods in Terms of Patient Satisfaction and Functional Results in the Postoperative Period

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

WALANT anesthesia technique has been frequently preferred in hand and upper extremity surgery in recent years. WALANT technique; It stands out with its advantages such as lack of pre-operative anesthesia preparation process, reduction in test and examination requests, reduction in unnecessary hospitalizations and high patient satisfaction. There are studies with a high level of evidence showing that the WALANT technique has such advantages in soft tissue and smallmedium bone fracture surgery. In large bone fractures (radius, etc.), surgical treatment is performed with the WALANT technique and positive results have been reported. Although there is a study comparing WALANT and general anesthesia in the surgical treatment of distal radius fractures, there is no study comparing the peripheral nerve block technique.

Conditions

• Distal Radius Fracture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Open reduction and internal fixation (under WALANT)	Open reduction and internal fixation with volar Henry approach under WALANT.
PROCEDURE	Open reduction and internal fixation (under peripheral nerve block)	Open reduction and internal fixation with volar Henry approach under peripheral nerve block.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-19
• Primary completion: 2022-05-20
• Completion: 2022-05-20
• First posted: 2023-04-27
• Last updated: 2023-05-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)