Important updates of finger fractures, entrapment neuropathies and wide-awake surgery of the upper extremity

Lalonde D 1 , Ayhan E 2 , Ahmad AA 3 , Koehler S 4

Affiliations 

  • 1 Plastic Surgery, Dalhousie University, Saint John, NB, Canada
  • 2 Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Ankara, Turkey
  • 3 Department of Orthopaedics, Prince Court Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA
J Hand Surg Eur Vol, 2022 Jan;47(1):24-30.
PMID: 34256616 DOI: 10.1177/17531934211029543

Abstract

Hand surgery is rapidly changing. The wide-awake approach, minimum dissection surgery and early protected movement have changed many things. This is an update of some of the important changes regarding early protected movement with K-wired finger fracture management, simplification of nerve decompression surgery, such as elbow median and ulnar nerve releases, and some new areas in performing surgery with wide-awake local anaesthesia without tourniquet.

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