Patients Tracking Pain Episodes Show Wide-awake Local Anesthesia Without Tourniquet Can Be Nearly Painless
Real-time patient feedback improved surgeons' ability to administer tumescent local anesthesia with minimal pain. As a result, most patients experienced no pain or only 1 minor event during local anesthesia injection for wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet surgery.
Authors
- Donald H. Lalonde (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2715)
- Jean Paul Brutus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6170-3223)
- Amir Adham Ahmad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-8520)
- Bianief Tchiloemba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0408-8113)
- Thomas Apard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4873-6722)
- Min Cheol Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-7213)
Institutions
- University of Calgary (CA)
- University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (MY)
- Yeungnam University (KR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/gox.0000000000006568
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.79