Timed wake-up anaesthesia in hand: A modification to wide awake surgery of hand
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Timed wake-up anaesthesia in hand: A modification to wide awake surgery of hand
INTRODUCTION Wide awake surgery of the hand (WASH) is a well-accepted technique in hand surgery which allows the surgeon to identify and rectify on the table of some of the inadvertent shortcomings in the surgical procedures to optimise the final outcome. The advantage, however, precludes the use of tourniquet. We describe a modified method which preserves all the advantages of WASH and allows ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0970-0358,1998-376X
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0358.197221