Est-ce que la WALANT est indispensable dans la « petite chirurgie » de la main ambulatoire ?

IF 0.9 4区医学 Q4 ORTHOPEDICS

Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.hansur.2024.101859

Silvia Pietramala, Camillo Fulchignoni, Lorenzo Rocchi

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Abstract

Wide Awake Local Anesthesia (WALANT) is an alternative to general or regional anesthesia that became popular among hand surgeons for being ideal for tendon repair in which the cooperation of the patients is crucial, avoiding the use of the tourniquet, also giving more comfort to the patients. On the other hand, the learning curve is long for the surgeon and the injection must take place at least 30 minutes before starting the procedure, increasing the time needed to perform each surgery. Among the complications related to WALANT are digital ischemia and epinephrine-related-cardiac ischemia. Considering people undergoing CTR are mostly elderly and admitted to an outpatient service without the presence of an anesthesiologist, we cannot properly estimate the risk of adverse events.

From February 2023 to November 2023, we selected 300 patients who underwent outpatients hand surgery (carpal tunnel release and trigger finger). Each patient was administered local anesthesia with lidocaine and a tourniquet at the arm was applied for the whole length of the surgery. Demographic data were collected as long as the time of the surgery, the type of the surgery and the pain and discomfort felt by the patients during the tourniquet on period (evaluated with VAS).

Average length of the surgery was 12 minutes. The most common surgery performed was carpal tunnel release. The mean value, according to VAS, was of 3.2. Furthermore, we noted that the VAS was higher in older patients and longer surgeries. In only 3 cases, the tourniquet had to be released before end of surgery because of patient discomfort.

Despite WALANT being helpful and crucial to perform some hand surgeries, such as post-traumatic tenolysis or tendon repairs, the risk-benefit ratio doesn’t justify its use in short outpatient hand surgery. A limitation of our study is the lack of a control group to validate the effective disadvantage in terms of time and underestimated complications, considering the mean age of patients and the possible comorbidity that could interfere with the use of WALANT.

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Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine-Surgery

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1.70

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49 days

期刊介绍： As the official publication of the French, Belgian and Swiss Societies for Surgery of the Hand, as well as of the French Society of Rehabilitation of the Hand & Upper Limb, ''Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation'' - formerly named "Chirurgie de la Main" - publishes original articles, literature reviews, technical notes, and clinical cases. It is indexed in the main international databases (including Medline). Initially a platform for French-speaking hand surgeons, the journal will now publish its articles in English to disseminate its author''s scientific findings more widely. The journal also includes a biannual supplement in French, the monograph of the French Society for Surgery of the Hand, where comprehensive reviews in the fields of hand, peripheral nerve and upper limb surgery are presented. Organe officiel de la Société française de chirurgie de la main, de la Société française de Rééducation de la main (SFRM-GEMMSOR), de la Société suisse de chirurgie de la main et du Belgian Hand Group, indexée dans les grandes bases de données internationales (Medline, Embase, Pascal, Scopus), Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation - anciennement titrée Chirurgie de la main - publie des articles originaux, des revues de la littérature, des notes techniques, des cas clinique. Initialement plateforme d''expression francophone de la spécialité, la revue s''oriente désormais vers l''anglais pour devenir une référence scientifique et de formation de la spécialité en France et en Europe. Avec 6 publications en anglais par an, la revue comprend également un supplément biannuel, la monographie du GEM, où sont présentées en français, des mises au point complètes dans les domaines de la chirurgie de la main, des nerfs périphériques et du membre supérieur.