Office Based Hand Surgery Using WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet): Outcomes and Cost Savings Analysis

Office Based Hand Surgery Using WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet): Outcomes and Cost Savings Analysis

This study is aimed at determining if office based surgery is an effective way of cutting health care cost while maintaining patient safety and satisfaction.

The study is a retrospective chart review with prospective patient satisfaction and functional outcome surveys.

Patients that have had office based procedures that otherwise could be performed in the outpatient surgical setting from January 1, 2015 to December 4, 2015 will be contacted for study enrollment. Patient satisfaction and functional outcome surveys will be administered to those patients that consent to the research study.

The data to be collected will include but is not limited to: age gender limb dominance, complications and co-morbidities.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients seen for office based procedures that otherwise would be performed in the outpatient surgical setting from January 1, 2015 to December 4, 2015

Exclusion Criteria:

• K-wire hardware removal
• Closed reductions
• Patients receiving antibiotics at the time of the procedure