TY - JOUR
KW - leprosy
KW - WALANT
KW - Hand reconstructive surgery in leprosy
KW - Tendon transfer in leprosy
KW - Affordable surgery
KW - Safe epinephrine in finger
KW - Tendon Transfer
KW - India
AU - Mohammed AK
AU - Lalonde D
AB - <p>Dr Akbar Khan began using the wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) technique for leprosy tendon transfers in the summer of 2015 at the Damien Foundation Hospital in Nellore, India. This article summarizes his first 18&nbsp;months of experience and describes 5 of his operations. He found that WALANT provides effective anesthesia with good visibility for leprosy tendon transfers. WALANT permits economically disadvantaged leprosy patients to afford the surgery. All of the leprosy patients who have undergone WALANT tendon transfers in this series would like the same technique for their next tendon transfers.</p>

BT - Hand clinics
C1 - <p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30470333?dopt=Abstract</p>

DO - 10.1016/j.hcl.2018.09.001
IS - 1
J2 - Hand Clin
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Dr Akbar Khan began using the wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) technique for leprosy tendon transfers in the summer of 2015 at the Damien Foundation Hospital in Nellore, India. This article summarizes his first 18&nbsp;months of experience and describes 5 of his operations. He found that WALANT provides effective anesthesia with good visibility for leprosy tendon transfers. WALANT permits economically disadvantaged leprosy patients to afford the surgery. All of the leprosy patients who have undergone WALANT tendon transfers in this series would like the same technique for their next tendon transfers.</p>

PY - 2019
SP - 67
EP - 84
T2 - Hand clinics
TI - Wide Awake Tendon Transfers in Leprosy Patients in India.
VL - 35
SN - 1558-1969
ER -