The ultimate resource for multimedia on the wide awake hand surgery of renowned experts.

WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia Without a Tourniquet) circumvented the need for preoperative preparation, sedation, intravenous administration, and monitoring in upper and lower limb surgery. Combined with the minimal pain injection methods employed in pure local anesthesia with lidocaine and epinephrine, this procedure has had a significant effect on the hand surgery profession for patients and surgeons. Wide Awake Hand Surgery and Therapy Tips, Second Edition, provides readers with the most recent and greatest WALANT advances from Donald H. Lalonde as well as a group of renowned hand surgeons from 15 different countries who have incorporated this cutting-edge technique into their practice in order to benefit their patients. Each chapter that is rich with illustrations contains evidence-based benefits, step-by-step guidance, patient education, detailed instructions on injection, surgery and therapy, and related videos.

WALANT’s results are superior in the repair of flexor and extensor tendons, the transfer of tendons, the tenolysis of tendons, the grafting of tendons, and the surgery of fractures in the fingers. Because patients are easier to move during surgery, this method is more popular. This facilitates surgeons making necessary alterations and teaching patients without being interrupted while they are still conscious. Destroying the sedation also decreases the risk, increases safety, and decreases the pain associated with the intravenous procedure. Surgeries that are simple like the trigger finger and carpal tunnel no longer necessitate expensive main operating rooms. Instead, they can be accomplished in rooms with documented sterility that lead to lower costs and less waste.

New Additions

A larger video repository that has been enlarged by three times, and contains over 500 videos, the majority of which are new.

New sections on the upper and lower limb’s fracture covering of the wrist, forearm, elbow, acromion, clavicle, tibia, fibula, ankles, and feet.

More than eight hours of video instructional content regarding the diagnosis of ultrasounds and surgery via ultrasound.

Innovative methods of hand therapy were facilitated by WALANT’s description of Therapy Tips.

The utilization of pencil tests and relative motion splinting to address multiple problems associated with handwriting.

New methods of implementing WALANT in hospitals.

This essential resource should facilitate the prevention of unnecessary expenses and risks, the reduction of complications, and the improvement of patient outcomes.