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

Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Distal Radius Fracture

Treatments

Procedure: Open reduction and internal fixation (under WALANT)

Procedure: Open reduction and internal fixation (under peripheral nerve block)

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05832021

109/21

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment

48 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 100 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients older than 18 years of age
Patients who had acute distal radius fracture which underwent surgery

Exclusion criteria

Patients with open fractures
Additional injuries in the same extremity, peripheral vascular disease, and local anesthetic allergy at the time of first admission
Patients who are switched to general anesthesia after both techniques
Patients who underwent a second surgery on the same extremity due to any complication
Patients who had lacked follow-up examination information