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BENEFITS OF THE WALANT TECHNIQUE AGAINST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Rafael Saleme Alves1,2, Daniel Alexandre Pereira Consoni1, Pedro Henrique Oliveira Fernandes1
1Hospital IFOR, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil.
Objective:
Evaluate the experience of private and public health services with the WALANT procedure in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods:
This is a retrospective, multicenter longitudinal study gathering cases of hand surgery subjected to the WALANT technique in the Hospitals Dr. Radamés Nardini and IFOR during the COVID-19 pandemic (August 2020). As a parameter, the verbal numerical rating scale for twenty patients referring to the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative periods was applied.
Results:
The patients did not feel any pain during surgery, which showed the efficiency of the anesthetic technique in its purpose.
Conclusion:
The results indicate the WALANT technique as beneficial when facing the COVID-19 pandemic, as the main differential of the technique is that it is applied by a well-trained orthopedic hand surgeon.
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