NCT05864664

Safety and Efficacy of Wide Awake Local Anesthesia no Tourniquet Technique (WALANT) in Ankle Removal of Implant Surgery

Comparing Removal of Ankle Implants/ Hardware Using the Wide-awake Local Anesthesia no Tourniquet (WALANT) Technique Versus General Anesthesia.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ali Lari · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Safety and efficacy of wide awake local anesthesia no torniquet technique (WALANT) in ankle surgery. Studying risks and benefits from WALANT compared to general anesthesia . WALANT expected to decrease in intraoperative/post operative pain at the surgical site and decrease hospital time .

Conditions

• Safety Issues
• Post Operative Pain
• Local Anesthetic Complication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Wide awake local anaesthesia no tourniquet technique	Patient awake with no form of sedation or analgesia * A mixture of lidocaine, adrenaline, normal saline, bicarbonate is used to get 40-50ml solution * Injection is performed around incision site - superficial to deep including periosteum * Incision is performed in the normal fashion * Plate and screws are removed and incision is closed

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-01
• Primary completion: 2023-11-01
• Completion: 2023-11-01
• First posted: 2023-05-18
• Last updated: 2023-10-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Kuwait