Efficacy of Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) Versus Bier’s Block in the Internal Fixation of Unstable Distal Radius Fractures: A Single-Center Experience
The use of WALANT offered lower pain scores, reduced analgesic use, and same-day discharge. Therefore, WALANT is recommended as the preferred anesthetic technique for unstable distal radius fracture fixation.
Authors
- Petros Kapsetakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4987-4297)
- Ioannis M. Stavrakakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6286-2368)
- Grigorios Kastanis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1560-7679)
- Chrysostomos Tsatsoulas
- Constantinos Chaniotakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8935-5566)
- Mikela-Rafaella Siligardou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7209-9319)
- Ioannis Ktistakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3862-4826)
- Nikolaos Ritzakis
Institutions
- The General Hospital of Heraklion "Venizeleio-Pananio" (GR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cureus
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.98826
- Primary Topic
- Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00