Impact of Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet on Departmental Settings, Cost, Patient and Surgeon Satisfaction, and Beyond
Hand Clinics, cilt.35, sa.1, ss.29-34, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
- Cilt numarası: 35 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2019
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.hcl.2018.08.012
- Dergi Adı: Hand Clinics
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.29-34
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Local anesthesia, No tourniquet, Hand surgery, Efficiency, Departmental settings, Medical cost, Quality of life, Hand surgery training
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article reviews the impact of wide-awake hand surgery without tourniquet on departmental settings and savings on patients’ medical cost, and efficiency of fellowship training and practice of junior hand surgeons in 3 units in 3 countries. The medical cost of the commonly performed procedures is decreased remarkably with this approach in the 3 units. Hand surgery fellowship training and practice of junior surgeons are benefited from this approach in 2 units in Turkey and Switzerland. Overall, this approach improves the surgeons’ and patients’ quality of life and its application is expanding to almost all procedures of hand surgery.