BOSTON — The wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet technique may not be superior to general anesthesia in regard to function, rates of rupture and patient-reported outcomes, according to results presented here.
“We believe that surgeons can be confident in choosing either technique as long as rigorous patient selection, sound surgical technique and proper hand therapy have been sought,” Mohamed Morsy, MD, said in his presentation at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting.
Morsy and colleagues randomly assigned patients undergoing flexor tendon