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

Surgery Clinical Trial

— WALANT  

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02807571
• Other study ID #: 2015-263
• Status: Withdrawn
• Start date: February 10, 2017
• Est. completion date: October 3, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: September 2023
• Source: Spectrum Health Hospitals
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Description:

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: October 3, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: October 3, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Surgery

Intervention

Procedure:
• Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet
Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet for office based hand surgery.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Spectrum Health	Grand Rapids	Michigan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Spectrum Health Hospitals

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Complication Rates	Collect the incidence of complications.	2 months
Secondary	Cost savings	Compare the costs of the WALANT procedure with similar procedures done at an ASC or as an outpatient.	2 months